About the Authors

Viviane Villard

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, Epalinges, Switzerland

George W. Agak

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, Epalinges, Switzerland

Géraldine Frank

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, Epalinges, Switzerland

Ali Jafarshad

Affiliation Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Catherine Servis

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, Epalinges, Switzerland

Issa Nébié

Affiliation Centre National de Recherche et Formation sur le Paludisme, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Sodiomon B. Sirima

Affiliation Centre National de Recherche et Formation sur le Paludisme, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Ingrid Felger

Affiliation Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Myriam Arevalo-Herrera

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, University of Valle, Cali, Colombia

Socrates Herrera

Affiliation Institute of Immunology, University of Valle, Cali, Colombia

Frederic Heitz

Affiliation CRBM, CNRS, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Volker Bäcker

Affiliation CRBM, CNRS, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Pierre Druilhe

Affiliation Pasteur Institute, Paris, France

Andrey V. Kajava

Affiliation CRBM, CNRS, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

Giampietro Corradin

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: giampietro.corradin@unil.ch

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, Epalinges, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GC VV GA VB AK AJ. Performed the experiments: VV GA GF VB AK AJ FH. Analyzed the data: GC VV GA GF VB AK AJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC VV GA GF CS IN SS IF MA AJ SH. Wrote the paper: GC PD VV GA IN SS IF AK AJ SH.