Exploration of Immunology

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Acknowledgments

We thank the Life Science Research Center, University of Toyama and the Institute for Animal Experimentation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine for technical support. We thank members of Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine for their assistance and help. We also thank Michael Croft and Hiroyasu Nakano for Traf5^−/− mice and for their encouragement at the start of the project.

Author contributions

TS and NI: Supervision. TS and MHK: Writing—original draft. TS, NI and MHK: Writing—review & editing. All authors read and approved the submitted version.

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.

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Funding

The study was approved by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI [Grants JP15H04640 (T.S.), JP18H02572 (T.S.)]. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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