About the Authors

Don-Marc Franchini

Affiliations Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Université Aix Marseille, Marseille, France, CNRS, UMR6102, Marseille, France, Inserm, U631, Marseille, France

Touati Benoukraf

Affiliations Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Université Aix Marseille, Marseille, France, CNRS, UMR6102, Marseille, France, Inserm, U631, Marseille, France

Sébastien Jaeger

Affiliations Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Université Aix Marseille, Marseille, France, CNRS, UMR6102, Marseille, France, Inserm, U631, Marseille, France

Pierre Ferrier

Affiliations Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Université Aix Marseille, Marseille, France, CNRS, UMR6102, Marseille, France, Inserm, U631, Marseille, France

Dominique Payet-Bornet

payet@ciml.univ-mrs.fr

Affiliations Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Université Aix Marseille, Marseille, France, CNRS, UMR6102, Marseille, France, Inserm, U631, Marseille, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DMF PF DPB. Performed the experiments: DMF TB SJ. Analyzed the data: DMF TB SJ PF DPB. Wrote the paper: PF DPB. Did all the biological experiments: DMF. Did the phylogenetic analyses: TB SJ.