About the Authors

Claudine Benard

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudine Benard, Antonietta Cultrone

Current address: Pharmanet, Paris, France

Affiliation INRA, UMR 1280 PHAN, Université de Nantes, CHU Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes, France

Antonietta Cultrone

Contributed equally to this work with: Claudine Benard, Antonietta Cultrone

Affiliation INRA, UR910 UEPSD, Domaine de Vilvert, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Catherine Michel

Affiliation INRA, UMR 1280 PHAN, Université de Nantes, CHU Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes, France

Carlos Rosales

Affiliation Immunology Department, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

Jean-Pierre Segain

Affiliation INRA, UMR 1280 PHAN, Université de Nantes, CHU Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes, France

Marc Lahaye

Affiliation INRA, BIA, Nantes, France

Jean-Paul Galmiche

Affiliation INSERM, U913, CHU Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes, France

Christine Cherbut

Current address: Nestle Research Centre, Lausanne, France

Affiliation INRA, UMR 1280 PHAN, Université de Nantes, CHU Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes, France

Hervé M. Blottière

Herve.Blottiere@jouy.inra.fr

Affiliation INRA, UR910 UEPSD, Domaine de Vilvert, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB CM JPS ML JPG CC HMB. Performed the experiments: CB CM CR HMB. Analyzed the data: CB AC CR JPS HMB. Wrote the paper: AC CM CR JPS HMB.