About the Authors

Julien Couthouis

Contributed equally to this work with: Julien Couthouis, Karine Rébora

Affiliation IBGC, UMR 5095, CNRS Université Bordeaux 2 “Victor Segalen”, Bordeaux, France

Karine Rébora

Contributed equally to this work with: Julien Couthouis, Karine Rébora

Affiliation IBGC, UMR 5095, CNRS Université Bordeaux 2 “Victor Segalen”, Bordeaux, France

Françoise Immel

Affiliation IBGC, UMR 5095, CNRS Université Bordeaux 2 “Victor Segalen”, Bordeaux, France

Karine Berthelot

Affiliation IBGC, UMR 5095, CNRS Université Bordeaux 2 “Victor Segalen”, Bordeaux, France

Michel Castroviejo

Affiliation REGER, UMR 5097 CNRS Université Bordeaux 2 “Victor Segalen”, Bordeaux, France

Christophe Cullin

Christophe.Cullin@ibgc.u-bordeaux2.fr

Affiliation IBGC, UMR 5095, CNRS Université Bordeaux 2 “Victor Segalen”, Bordeaux, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC. Performed the experiments: JC KR FI KB MC. Analyzed the data: JC KR CC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FI KB MC. Wrote the paper: KR CC. Generated the new mutant alleles analyzed in the second version of the article: KB. Has performed the SEC experiments: MC.