About the Authors

Andrea Cerutti

Affiliations Unité Hépacivirus et Immunité Innée, Département de Virologie, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, CNRS, URA3015, Paris, France, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Università del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Novara, Italy

Patrick Maillard

Affiliations Unité Hépacivirus et Immunité Innée, Département de Virologie, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, CNRS, URA3015, Paris, France

Rosalba Minisini

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Università del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Novara, Italy

Pierre-Olivier Vidalain

Affiliations CNRS, URA3015, Paris, France, Unité de Génomique Virale et Vaccination, Département de Virologie, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Farzin Roohvand

Affiliations Unité Hépacivirus et Immunité Innée, Département de Virologie, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, CNRS, URA3015, Paris, France, Hepatitis and AIDS Department, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Teheran, Iran

Eve-Isabelle Pecheur

Affiliations Université Lyon 1, Lyon, France, CNRS, UMR5086, Lyon, France, IBCP, Bases Moléculaires et Structurales des Systèmes Infectieux, Lyon, France

Mario Pirisi

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Università del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”, Novara, Italy

Agata Budkowska

agata.budkowska@pasteur.fr

Affiliations Unité Hépacivirus et Immunité Innée, Département de Virologie, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, CNRS, URA3015, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB PM RM AC P-OV. Performed the experiments: AC PM FR E-IP. Analyzed the data: AB PM AC P-OV E-IP FR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: P-OV E-IP. Wrote the paper: AB AC PM. Provided fellowship for AC: MP.