About the Authors

Francesco Pini

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesco Pini, Nicole J. De Nisco

Current address: Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Affiliation Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, UMR8576 CNRS—Université de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

Nicole J. De Nisco

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesco Pini, Nicole J. De Nisco

Current address: Department of Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lorenzo Ferri

Affiliation Meyer Children Hospital, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy

Jon Penterman

Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Antonella Fioravanti

Affiliation Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, UMR8576 CNRS—Université de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

Matteo Brilli

Affiliation Fondazione Edmund Mach/CRI, Functional genomics, San Michele all'Adige, Italy

Alessio Mengoni

Affiliation Dept. of Biology, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy

Marco Bazzicalupo

Affiliation Dept. of Biology, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy

Patrick H. Viollier

Affiliation Dept. Microbiology & Molecular Medicine, University of Geneva, Genève, Switzerland

Graham C. Walker

Affiliation Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Emanuele G. Biondi

Emanuele.biondi@iri.univ-lille1.fr

Affiliation Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle, UMR8576 CNRS—Université de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FP NJDN LF MBr GCW EGB. Performed the experiments: FP NJDN LF JP MBr AF. Analyzed the data: FP NJDN LF JP MBr EGB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM MBa PHV GCW EGB. Wrote the paper: FP NJDN JP EGB.