About the Authors

Tomoki Inagaki

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, the University of California Davis (UC Davis), Sacramento, California, United States of America

Kang-Hsin Wang

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, the University of California Davis (UC Davis), Sacramento, California, United States of America

Ashish Kumar

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, the University of California Davis (UC Davis), Sacramento, California, United States of America

Chie Izumiya

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, the University of California Davis (UC Davis), Sacramento, California, United States of America

Hiroki Miura

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, the University of California Davis (UC Davis), Sacramento, California, United States of America

Somayeh Komaki

Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, the University of California Davis (UC Davis), Sacramento, California, United States of America

Ryan R. Davis

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, UC Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Clifford G. Tepper

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, UC Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Harutaka Katano

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Michiko Shimoda

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, the University of California Davis (UC Davis), Sacramento, California, United States of America

Yoshihiro Izumiya

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

yizumiya@ucdavis.edu

Affiliations Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, the University of California Davis (UC Davis), Sacramento, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine, UC Davis, Sacramento, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: M.S. and Y.I. are founders of VGN BIO, Inc. and have a pending patent application for the use of vIL-6 for therapeutic purposes. No other authors have financial interests.