About the Authors

Tomonobu M. Watanabe

Affiliations WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Department of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Atsuko H. Iwane

Affiliation Soft Biosystem Group, Laboratories for Nanobiology, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Hiroto Tanaka

Affiliation Kobe Advanced ICT Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kobe, Japan

Mitsuo Ikebe

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Toshio Yanagida

Hyanagida@phys1.med.osaka-u.ac.jp

Affiliations WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan, Soft Biosystem Group, Laboratories for Nanobiology, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HT TY. Performed the experiments: TMW. Analyzed the data: TMW HT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AHI MI. Wrote the paper: TMW.