About the Authors

Yohei Watanabe

Affiliation Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases (BIKEN), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Naohiro Ohtaki

Current address: Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Affiliation Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases (BIKEN), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Yohei Hayashi

Affiliation Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases (BIKEN), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Kazuyoshi Ikuta

Affiliations Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases (BIKEN), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Section of Viral Infections, Thailand–Japan Research Collaboration Center on Emerging and Re-emerging Infections (RCC-ERI), Nonthaburi, Thailand

Keizo Tomonaga

tomonaga@biken.osaka-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Virology, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases (BIKEN), Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YW KI KT. Performed the experiments: YW NO YH KT. Analyzed the data: YW KI KT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YW NO YH. Wrote the paper: YW KT.