About the Authors

Yukinori Kato

Contributed equally to this work with: Yukinori Kato, Shoko Akasaki

Affiliations Laboratory of Allergic Diseases, Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medical Science, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan

Shoko Akasaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Yukinori Kato, Shoko Akasaki

Affiliation Laboratory of Allergic Diseases, Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

Yoko Muto-Haenuki

Affiliations Laboratory of Allergic Diseases, Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Shigeharu Fujieda

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medical Science, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan

Kazufumi Matsushita

Affiliation Laboratory of Allergic Diseases, Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

Tomohiro Yoshimoto

tomo@hyo-med.ac.jp

Affiliations Laboratory of Allergic Diseases, Institute for Advanced Medical Sciences, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan, Department of Immunology and Medical Zoology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan

Competing Interests

This work was supported in part by the Takeda Science Foundation, which is affiliated with Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KM SF TY. Performed the experiments: YK SA YMH. Analyzed the data: YK SA KM TY. Wrote the paper: YK SA KM TY.