About the Authors

Stéphane Audic

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Stephane.Audic@igs.cnrs-mrs.fr (SA); Michel.Drancourt@medecine.univ-mrs.fr (MD)

Affiliations Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory, Institute for Structural Biology and Microbiology, Marseille, France , CNRS, UPR2589, Marseille, France

Catherine Robert

Affiliations Unité des Rickettsies, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France , CNRS, UMR6020, Marseille, France

Bernard Campagna

Affiliations Unité des Rickettsies, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France , CNRS, UMR6020, Marseille, France

Hugues Parinello

Affiliations Unité des Rickettsies, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France , CNRS, UMR6020, Marseille, France

Jean-Michel Claverie

Affiliations Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory, Institute for Structural Biology and Microbiology, Marseille, France , CNRS, UPR2589, Marseille, France

Didier Raoult

Affiliations Unité des Rickettsies, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France , CNRS, UMR6020, Marseille, France

Michel Drancourt

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Stephane.Audic@igs.cnrs-mrs.fr (SA); Michel.Drancourt@medecine.univ-mrs.fr (MD)

Affiliations Unité des Rickettsies, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France , CNRS, UMR6020, Marseille, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

JMC, DR, and MD conceived and designed the experiments. CR, BC, and HP performed the experiments. SA and MD analyzed the data. SA contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. SA, JMC, DR, and MD wrote the paper.