About the Authors

Atsushi Kawaguchi

Contributed equally to this work with: Atsushi Kawaguchi, Mikako Hirohama

ats-kawaguchi@md.tsukuba.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Infection Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai, Tsukuba, Japan, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai, Tsukuba, Japan

Mikako Hirohama

Contributed equally to this work with: Atsushi Kawaguchi, Mikako Hirohama

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai, Tsukuba, Japan

Yoshimi Harada

Affiliation Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai, Tsukuba, Japan

Suguru Osari

Affiliation Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai, Tsukuba, Japan

Kyosuke Nagata

Affiliation Department of Infection Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai, Tsukuba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AK. Performed the experiments: AK MH. Analyzed the data: AK MH KN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YH SO. Wrote the paper: AK KN.