About the Authors

Mena Cimino

Contributed equally to this work with: Mena Cimino, Christophe Thomas, Amine Namouchi

Affiliation Unité de Génétique Mycobacterienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Christophe Thomas

Contributed equally to this work with: Mena Cimino, Christophe Thomas, Amine Namouchi

Affiliation Unité de Plasticité du Génome bactérien, Institut Pasteur, CNRS UMR 3525, Paris, France

Amine Namouchi

Contributed equally to this work with: Mena Cimino, Christophe Thomas, Amine Namouchi

Affiliation Unité de Génétique Mycobacterienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Sarah Dubrac

Affiliation Unité de Recherche Biologie des Bactéries pathogènes à Gram-positif, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Brigitte Gicquel

brigitte.gicquel@pasteur.fr

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Unité de Génétique Mycobacterienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Deshmukh N. Gopaul

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Unité de Plasticité du Génome bactérien, Institut Pasteur, CNRS UMR 3525, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC BG DNG. Performed the experiments: MC CT SD. Analyzed the data: MC CT AN SD BG DNG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MC CT AN SD BG DNG. Wrote the paper: MC CT AN SD BG DNG.