About the Authors

Carine Bouffi

Affiliations Inserm, Unité 844, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

Claire Bony

Affiliations Inserm, Unité 844, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

Gabriel Courties

Affiliations Inserm, Unité 844, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

Christian Jorgensen

Affiliations Inserm, Unité 844, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France, Service d'Immuno-Rhumatologie Thérapeutique, Hôpital Lapeyronie, Montpellier, France

Danièle Noël

daniele.noel@inserm.fr

Affiliations Inserm, Unité 844, Montpellier, France, Université Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CJ DN. Performed the experiments: C. Bouffi C. Bony GC. Analyzed the data: C. Bouffi C. Bony GC DN. Wrote the paper: C. Bouffi DN.