About the Authors

Daisuke Mizushima

Affiliations AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Center for AIDS Research, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Takeshi Nishijima

Affiliations AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Center for AIDS Research, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Hiroyuki Gatanaga

higatana@acc.ncgm.go.jp

Affiliations AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Center for AIDS Research, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Kunihisa Tsukada

Affiliation AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Katsuji Teruya

Affiliation AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshimi Kikuchi

Affiliation AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Shinichi Oka

Affiliations AIDS Clinical Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Center for AIDS Research, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DM K. Tsukada K. Teruya. Performed the experiments: DM TN K. Teruya. Analyzed the data: DM HG YK SO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YK K. Tsukada. Wrote the paper: DM TN HG SO.