About the Authors

Noemie Legrand

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Tanguy Araud

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Beatrice Conne

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Odin Kuijpers

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Pascale Jaquier-Gubler

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland

Joseph Curran

Joseph.Curran@unige.ch

Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerland, Institute of Genetics and Genomics in Geneva (iGE3), University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NL TA JC. Performed the experiments: NL BC PJ-G. Analyzed the data: NL BC JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OK. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: JC.