About the Authors

Anaïs Merckx

Affiliations INSERM U609, Wellcome Center for Molecular Parasitology, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom , Institut Cochin, INSERM U567, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS (UMR 8104), Paris, France

Marie-Paule Nivez

Affiliation INSERM U609, Wellcome Center for Molecular Parasitology, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Guillaume Bouyer

Affiliation Université Pierre et Marie Curie – CNRS UMR 7150, Roscoff, France

Pietro Alano

Affiliation Instituto Superiore de Sanita, Rome, Italy

Gordon Langsley

Affiliation Institut Cochin, INSERM U567, Université Paris Descartes, CNRS (UMR 8104), Paris, France

Kirk Deitsch

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York, United States of America

Serge Thomas

Affiliation Université Pierre et Marie Curie – CNRS UMR 7150, Roscoff, France

Christian Doerig

Affiliation INSERM U609, Wellcome Center for Molecular Parasitology, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Stéphane Egée

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: egee@sb-roscoff.fr

Affiliation Université Pierre et Marie Curie – CNRS UMR 7150, Roscoff, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

A. Merckx, K. Deitsch, C. Doerig, and S. Egée conceived and designed the experiments. A. Merckx, M-P. Nivez, G. Bouyer, P. Alano, K. Deitsch, and S. Egée performed the experiments. A. Merckx, G. Bouyer, P. Alano, G. Langsley, S. Thomas, C. Doerig, and S. Egée analyzed the data. A. Merckx, G. Langsley, C. Doerig, and S. Egée wrote the paper.