About the Authors

Etienne Levavasseur

Affiliation INSERM, Avenir Team - Human Prion Diseases, Paris, France

Isabelle Laffont-Proust

Affiliation INSERM, Avenir Team - Human Prion Diseases, Paris, France

Émilie Morain

Affiliation INSERM, Avenir Team - Human Prion Diseases, Paris, France

Baptiste A. Faucheux

Affiliations INSERM, Avenir Team - Human Prion Diseases, Paris, France, APHP, R. Escourolle Neuropathology Laboratory, Paris, France

Nicolas Privat

Affiliation INSERM, Avenir Team - Human Prion Diseases, Paris, France

Katell Peoc'h

Affiliation Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, Lariboisière Hospital, Paris, France

Véronique Sazdovitch

Affiliations INSERM, Avenir Team - Human Prion Diseases, Paris, France, APHP, R. Escourolle Neuropathology Laboratory, Paris, France

Jean-Philippe Brandel

Affiliation INSERM, Avenir Team - Human Prion Diseases, Paris, France

Jean-Jacques Hauw

Affiliations APHP, R. Escourolle Neuropathology Laboratory, Paris, France, InVS, French National Center of Reference for Unconventional Transmissible Agents, Paris, France

Stéphane Haïk

haik@chups.jussieu.fr

Affiliations INSERM, Avenir Team - Human Prion Diseases, Paris, France, APHP, R. Escourolle Neuropathology Laboratory, Paris, France, InVS, French National Center of Reference for Unconventional Transmissible Agents, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EL ILP SH. Performed the experiments: EL ILP M KP. Analyzed the data: EL ILP BF JJH SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NP KP VS JPB JJH SH. Wrote the paper: EL ILP BF KP JPB JJH SH.