About the Authors

Hironori Kurisaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Hironori Kurisaki, Yukihiro Nagao

kurisaki@med.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Medical Science and Technology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Yukihiro Nagao

Contributed equally to this work with: Hironori Kurisaki, Yukihiro Nagao

Affiliation Department of Medical Science and Technology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Seiho Nagafuchi

Affiliation Department of Medical Science and Technology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Masao Mitsuyama

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HK SN YN. Performed the experiments: HK YN. Analyzed the data: HK SN YN. Wrote the paper: HK MM SN.