About the Authors

Tomoki Inagaki

Contributed equally to this work with: Tomoki Inagaki, Ashish Kumar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Division of Virus Persistence & Dynamics, Research Promotion Headquarters, Center for Infectious Disease Research, Fujita Health University, Kutsukake-cho, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

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

Ashish Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Tomoki Inagaki, Ashish Kumar

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, 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 Data curation, 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 Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Jonna M. Espera

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

Christopher S. A. Bautista

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

Ken-ichi Nakajima

Roles Investigation, Methodology, 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

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, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, 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. YI declares a competing interest relating to a founding role for VGN Bio Inc. All other authors declare they have no competing interests.