About the Authors

Benoît Vokaer

Contributed equally to this work with: Benoît Vokaer, Louis-Marie Charbonnier

bvokaer@ulb.ac.be (BV); alemoine@ulb.ac.be (ALM)

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium

Louis-Marie Charbonnier

Contributed equally to this work with: Benoît Vokaer, Louis-Marie Charbonnier

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium

Philippe H. Lemaître

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium

Chloé Spilleboudt

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium

Alain Le Moine

bvokaer@ulb.ac.be (BV); alemoine@ulb.ac.be (ALM)

Affiliation Institute for Medical Immunology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Gosselies, Belgium

Competing Interests

This study was partly funded by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BV LMC. Performed the experiments: BV LMC PL CS. Analyzed the data: BV LMC ALM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BV LMC PL CS ALM. Wrote the paper: BV LMC ALM. Made the figures: BV LMC. Designed and supervised research: ALM.