About the Authors

Bruno Lamontagne

Affiliation Groupe ARN (RNA Group), Laboratoire de Génomique Fonctionnelle (Laboratory for Functional Genomics), Département de Microbiologie et d'Infectiologie, Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Sherif Abou Elela

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Sherif.Abou.Elela@USherbrooke.ca

Affiliation Groupe ARN (RNA Group), Laboratoire de Génomique Fonctionnelle (Laboratory for Functional Genomics), Département de Microbiologie et d'Infectiologie, Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Competing Interests

For clarity and transparency we declare a potential duality of interest because we have submitted a patent covering this discovery. However, there is no value for this primary patent submission and we have no reason to believe at this time that the publication will affect neither the potential nor value of the potential patent.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA. Performed the experiments: BL. Wrote the paper: SA BL.