About the Authors

Jean-Philippe Belzile

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean-Philippe Belzile, Ghislaine Duisit

Affiliation Laboratory of Human Retrovirology, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Ghislaine Duisit

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean-Philippe Belzile, Ghislaine Duisit

¤ Current address: Centre de Thérapie Génique, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille, France

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Nicole Rougeau

Affiliation Laboratory of Human Retrovirology, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Johanne Mercier

Affiliation Laboratory of Human Retrovirology, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Andrés Finzi

Affiliation Laboratory of Human Retrovirology, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Éric A Cohen

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: eric.cohen@ircm.qc.ca

Affiliations Laboratory of Human Retrovirology, Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada , Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

JPB, GD, and EAC conceived and designed the experiments and analyzed the data. JPB, GD, NR, JM, and AF performed the experiments. JPB, GD, and EAC wrote the paper.