About the Authors

Yannick Hamon

Affiliation Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille Luminy, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France

Doriane Trompier

Affiliation Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille Luminy, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France

Zhong Ma

Affiliation Carter Immunology Center and the Department Of Microbiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

Victor Venegas

Affiliation Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Matthieu Pophillat

Affiliation Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille Luminy, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France

Vincent Mignotte

Affiliation Institut Cochin, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U 567, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 8104, Université Paris V, Paris, France

Zheng Zhou

Affiliation Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Giovanna Chimini

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: chimini@ciml.univ-mrs.fr

Affiliation Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille Luminy, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GC ZZ. Performed the experiments: YH DT ZM VV. Analyzed the data: GC YH DT ZZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VM. Wrote the paper: GC. Other: Technical assistance with preparations of cells and apoptotic preys: MP.