About the Authors

Mélanie Falord

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Biology of Gram-Positive Pathogens, Department of Microbiology, Paris, France, CNRS, URA 2172, Paris, France

Ulrike Mäder

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Department for Functional Genomics, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany

Aurélia Hiron

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Biology of Gram-Positive Pathogens, Department of Microbiology, Paris, France, CNRS, URA 2172, Paris, France

Michel Débarbouillé

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Biology of Gram-Positive Pathogens, Department of Microbiology, Paris, France, CNRS, URA 2172, Paris, France

Tarek Msadek

tmsadek@pasteur.fr

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Biology of Gram-Positive Pathogens, Department of Microbiology, Paris, France, CNRS, URA 2172, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TM MF AH. Performed the experiments: MF AH MD. Analyzed the data: TM MF UM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF AH MD UM. Wrote the paper: TM MF.