About the Authors

Masakazu Kamata

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Min Liang

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shirley Liu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Yoshiko Nagaoka

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Irvin S. Y. Chen

syuchen@mednet.ucla.edu

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MK ISYC. Performed the experiments: MK ML SL YN. Analyzed the data: MK. Wrote the paper: MK ISYC.