About the Authors

Geneviève Garcin

Affiliation Unité Mixte de Recherche 5235, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Montpellier II, Montpellier, France

Yann Bordat

Affiliation Unité Mixte de Recherche 5235, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Montpellier II, Montpellier, France

Paul Chuchana

Affiliation Institut des Neurosciences de Montpellier, Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale 844, Montpellier, France

Danièle Monneron

Affiliation Unité Mixte de Recherche 5235, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Montpellier II, Montpellier, France

Helen K. W. Law

Affiliation Centre for Human Immunology, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Jacob Piehler

Affiliation Division of Biophysics, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Gilles Uzé

uze@univ-montp2.fr

Affiliation Unité Mixte de Recherche 5235, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Montpellier II, Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GG GU. Performed the experiments: GG YB DM HL. Analyzed the data: GG PC GU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JP. Wrote the paper: GG GU.