**Author details**

Kenji Hikosaka1,2, Keisuke Komatsuya3 , Shigeo Suzuki3,4 and Kiyoshi Kita3,5\*

\*Address all correspondence to: kitak@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp

1 Department of Infection and Host Defense, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

2 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

3 Department of Biomedical Chemistry, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

4 SBI Pharmaceuticals Co, LTD, Izumi Garden Tower 20F, 1-6-1, Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

5 Nagasaki University, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki, Japan
