About the Authors

Shiou-Ling Lu

Affiliation Department of Intracellular Membrane Dynamics, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Tsuyoshi Kawabata

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Yi-Lin Cheng

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Biotechnology and Laboratory Science in Medicine, School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, National-Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Hiroko Omori

Affiliation Research Institute for Microbial Disease, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Maho Hamasaki

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Tatsuya Kusaba

Affiliation Department of Intracellular Membrane Dynamics, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Ryo Iwamoto

Affiliation Department of Intracellular Membrane Dynamics, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Hirokazu Arimoto

Affiliation Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Takeshi Noda

Affiliations Graduate School of Frontier Bioscience, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, Center for Frontier Oral Science, Graduate School of Dentistry, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Yee-Shin Lin

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Center of Infectious Disease and Signaling Research, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Tamotsu Yoshimori

tamyoshi@fbs.osaka-u.ac.jp

Affiliations Department of Intracellular Membrane Dynamics, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, Department of Genetics, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SLL TKa MH HA YSL TY. Funding acquisition: TY. Investigation: SLL YLC HO MH TKu RI. Methodology: SLL HO MH HA. Project administration: MH TN TY. Supervision: TKa MH TN YSL TY. Visualization: SLL TKa HO MH. Writing – review & editing: SLL TKa YSL TY.