About the Authors

Jacques Oberto

jacques.oberto@igmors.u-psud.fr (JO); josette.rouviere-yaniv@ibpc.fr (JR-Y)

Current address: Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, CNRS UMR 8621, Université Paris XI, Orsay, France

Affiliation Laboratoire de Physiologie Bactérienne, CNRS, UPR 9073, Institut de Biologie Physico-chimique, Paris, France

Sabrina Nabti

Current address: Unité 653 INSERM, Institut Curie, Paris, France

Affiliation Laboratoire de Physiologie Bactérienne, CNRS, UPR 9073, Institut de Biologie Physico-chimique, Paris, France

Valérie Jooste

Affiliation INSERM, UMR 866, Epidemiology and Biostatistics group, University of Dijon, Dijon, France

Hervé Mignot

Current address: Equancy, Paris, France

Affiliation SPSS, Courbevoie, France

Josette Rouviere-Yaniv

jacques.oberto@igmors.u-psud.fr (JO); josette.rouviere-yaniv@ibpc.fr (JR-Y)

Affiliation Laboratoire de Physiologie Bactérienne, CNRS, UPR 9073, Institut de Biologie Physico-chimique, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JO. Performed the experiments: JO SN. Analyzed the data: JO VJ HM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HM. Wrote the paper: JO JRY.