About the Authors

Joern Toedling

Contributed equally to this work with: Joern Toedling, Nicolas Servant, Constance Ciaudo

Affiliations Institut Curie, Paris, France, INSERM U900, Paris, France, Mines ParisTech, Fontainebleau, France, CNRS UMR3215, Paris, France, INSERM U934, Paris, France

Nicolas Servant

Contributed equally to this work with: Joern Toedling, Nicolas Servant, Constance Ciaudo

nicolas.servant@curie.fr (NS); cciaudo@ethz.ch (CC)

Affiliations Institut Curie, Paris, France, INSERM U900, Paris, France, Mines ParisTech, Fontainebleau, France

Constance Ciaudo

Contributed equally to this work with: Joern Toedling, Nicolas Servant, Constance Ciaudo

nicolas.servant@curie.fr (NS); cciaudo@ethz.ch (CC)

Affiliations Institut Curie, Paris, France, CNRS UMR3215, Paris, France, INSERM U934, Paris, France, Department of Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Laurent Farinelli

Affiliation Fasteris, Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland

Olivier Voinnet

Affiliations Department of Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, CNRS UPR2357 – Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

Edith Heard

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Institut Curie, Paris, France, CNRS UMR3215, Paris, France, INSERM U934, Paris, France

Emmanuel Barillot

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Institut Curie, Paris, France, INSERM U900, Paris, France, Mines ParisTech, Fontainebleau, France

Competing Interests

L. Farinelli is employed by Fasteris SA. 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: CC EH OV. Performed the experiments: CC LF. Analyzed the data: JT NS CC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JT NS CC LF OV EH EB. Wrote the paper: JT NS CC EH OV EB.