About the Authors

Nicolas Degauque

Affiliations INSERM, UMR643, Nantes, France, CHU de Nantes, ITUN, Nantes, France, Université de Nantes, Faculté de Médecine, Nantes, France

Françoise Boeffard

Affiliations INSERM, UMR643, Nantes, France, CHU de Nantes, ITUN, Nantes, France, Université de Nantes, Faculté de Médecine, Nantes, France

Yohann Foucher

Affiliations INSERM, UMR643, Nantes, France, CHU de Nantes, ITUN, Nantes, France, Université de Nantes, Faculté de Médecine, Nantes, France, INSERM, EA 4275, Nantes, France

Caroline Ballet

Affiliations INSERM, UMR643, Nantes, France, CHU de Nantes, ITUN, Nantes, France, Université de Nantes, Faculté de Médecine, Nantes, France

Sophie Brouard

Contributed equally to this work with: Sophie Brouard, Jean-Paul Soulillou

Affiliations INSERM, UMR643, Nantes, France, CHU de Nantes, ITUN, Nantes, France, Université de Nantes, Faculté de Médecine, Nantes, France

Jean-Paul Soulillou

Contributed equally to this work with: Sophie Brouard, Jean-Paul Soulillou

jean-paul.soulillou@univ-nantes.fr

Affiliations INSERM, UMR643, Nantes, France, CHU de Nantes, ITUN, Nantes, France, Université de Nantes, Faculté de Médecine, Nantes, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ND SB J-PS. Performed the experiments: ND FB CB. Analyzed the data: ND YF SB J-PS. Wrote the paper: ND SB J-PS.