About the Authors

Alexandra A. Lambert

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandra A. Lambert, Arezki Azzi

Affiliation Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Quebec, Canada

Arezki Azzi

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandra A. Lambert, Arezki Azzi

caroline.gilbert@crchul.ulaval.ca (CG); michel.j.tremblay@crchul.ulaval.ca (MJT); arezkiazzi@yahoo.ca (AA)

Affiliations Endocrinology and Genomics (Faculty of Medicine), Université Laval, Quebec, Canada, Department of pharmacology, College of Medicine, Al-Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Sheng-Xiang Lin

Affiliation Endocrinology and Genomics (Faculty of Medicine), Université Laval, Quebec, Canada

Geneviève Allaire

Affiliation Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Quebec, Canada

Karianne P. St-Gelais

Affiliation Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Quebec, Canada

Michel J. Tremblay

caroline.gilbert@crchul.ulaval.ca (CG); michel.j.tremblay@crchul.ulaval.ca (MJT); arezkiazzi@yahoo.ca (AA)

Affiliation Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Quebec, Canada

Caroline Gilbert

caroline.gilbert@crchul.ulaval.ca (CG); michel.j.tremblay@crchul.ulaval.ca (MJT); arezkiazzi@yahoo.ca (AA)

Affiliation Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CG AZ AAL MJT SXL. Performed the experiments: AAL AZ GA KPS CG. Analyzed the data: AAL AZ GA SXL KPS MJT CG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJT CG SXL. Wrote the paper: CG AZ AAL MJT SXL.