About the Authors

Mélanie Charmoy

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, WHO Immunology Research and Training Center, University of Lausannne, Epalinges, Switzerland

Saskia Brunner-Agten

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, WHO Immunology Research and Training Center, University of Lausannne, Epalinges, Switzerland

David Aebischer

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, WHO Immunology Research and Training Center, University of Lausannne, Epalinges, Switzerland

Floriane Auderset

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, WHO Immunology Research and Training Center, University of Lausannne, Epalinges, Switzerland

Pascal Launois

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, WHO Immunology Research and Training Center, University of Lausannne, Epalinges, Switzerland

Geneviève Milon

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Département de Parasitologie et Mycologie, Unité d'Immunophysiologie et Parasitisme Intracellulaire, Paris, France

Amanda E. I. Proudfoot

Affiliation Merck-Serono Geneva Research Center, Geneva, Switzerland

Fabienne Tacchini-Cottier

Fabienne.Tacchini-Cottier@unil.ch

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, WHO Immunology Research and Training Center, University of Lausannne, Epalinges, Switzerland

Competing Interests

AEIP is an employee of Merck-Serono Research center in Geneva. All of the other authors declare no conflict of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AEIP FTC. Performed the experiments: MC SBA DA FA. Analyzed the data: MC FTC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GM AEIP. Wrote the paper: FTC. Contributed to the design of the experiments: MC. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MC GM. Input in the design and analysis of data: PL.