About the Authors

Caroline Sommereyns

Contributed equally to this work with: Caroline Sommereyns, Sophie Paul

Affiliation Université catholique de Louvain, de Duve Institute, MIPA-VIRO 74-49, Brussels, Belgium

Sophie Paul

Contributed equally to this work with: Caroline Sommereyns, Sophie Paul

Affiliation Université catholique de Louvain, de Duve Institute, MIPA-VIRO 74-49, Brussels, Belgium

Peter Staeheli

Affiliation Department of Virology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Thomas Michiels

thomas.michiels@uclouvain.be

Affiliation Université catholique de Louvain, de Duve Institute, MIPA-VIRO 74-49, Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CS SP TM. Performed the experiments: CS SP PS TM. Analyzed the data: CS SP TM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PS. Wrote the paper: CS SP PS TM. Performed and designed the experiments to define tissues and cells responding to IFNs: CS. Performed and designed the experiments destined to analyze IFN production: SP. Provided Mx-positive mice as well as antibodies, and performed the LACV infections: PS. Helped in the design and performance of several experiments, and wrote the manuscript with the help of all co-authors: TM.