About the Authors

Nanae Yamamoto-Taguchi

Affiliation Laboratory of Virus Control, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Yorifumi Satou

Affiliation Laboratory of Virus Control, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Paola Miyazato

Affiliation Laboratory of Virus Control, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Koichi Ohshima

Affiliation Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Kurume University, Fukuoka, Japan

Masanori Nakagawa

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

Koko Katagiri

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, School of Science, Kitasato University, Kanagawa, Japan

Tatsuo Kinashi

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Institute of Biomedical Science, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan

Masao Matsuoka

mmatsuok@virus.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Laboratory of Virus Control, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NYT YS MM. Performed the experiments: NYT YS PM KO KK. Analyzed the data: NYT YS TK MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MN. Wrote the paper: NYT YS PM KK TK MM.