About the Authors

Sarah Garrido-Urbani

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Centre Médical Universitaire, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Stephane Jemelin

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Centre Médical Universitaire, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Christine Deffert

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Centre Médical Universitaire, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Stéphanie Carnesecchi

Affiliations Department of Pathology and Immunology, Centre Médical Universitaire, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Pediatrics, Centre Médical Universitaire, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Olivier Basset

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Centre Médical Universitaire, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Cédric Szyndralewiez

Affiliation GenKyoTex S.A., Geneva, Switzerland

Freddy Heitz

Affiliation GenKyoTex S.A., Geneva, Switzerland

Patrick Page

Affiliation GenKyoTex S.A., Geneva, Switzerland

Xavier Montet

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Metabolism, Centre Médical Universitaire, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Liliane Michalik

Affiliation Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Jack Arbiser

Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Curzio Rüegg

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

Karl Heinz Krause

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Centre Médical Universitaire, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Beat Imhof

beat.imhof@unige.ch

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Centre Médical Universitaire, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

A patent is pending on GKT136901 with PP as inventor and GenKyoTex as owner of the patent. PP, CS and K-HK own shares of GenKyoTex. A patent is pending on fulvene-5, with JLA as inventor and Emory University as owner of the patent. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SGU KHK BI. Performed the experiments: SGU SJ CD SC OB CS FH PP. Analyzed the data: SGU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CD SC OB CS FH PP XM LM JA CR KHK. Wrote the paper: SGU KHK BI.