About the Authors

Emilie Esnault

Contributed equally to this work with: Emilie Esnault, Michèle Valens

Affiliation Centre de Génétique Moléculaire du CNRS, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Michèle Valens

Contributed equally to this work with: Emilie Esnault, Michèle Valens

Affiliation Centre de Génétique Moléculaire du CNRS, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Olivier Espéli

Affiliation Centre de Génétique Moléculaire du CNRS, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Frédéric Boccard

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: boccard@cgm.cnrs-gif.fr

Affiliation Centre de Génétique Moléculaire du CNRS, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

EE, MV, OE, and FB conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, and analyzed the data. FB wrote the paper.