About the Authors

Pierre Lebrun

Affiliations INSERM U1019, Lille, France, CNRS UMR 8204, Lille, France, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France, Univ Lille Nord de France, Lille, France

Dominique Raze

Affiliations INSERM U1019, Lille, France, CNRS UMR 8204, Lille, France, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France, Univ Lille Nord de France, Lille, France

Bernd Fritzinger

Affiliations Univ Lille Nord de France, Lille, France, CNRS UMR8576 Structural and Functional Glycobiology, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

Jean-Michel Wieruszeski

Affiliations Univ Lille Nord de France, Lille, France, CNRS UMR8576 Structural and Functional Glycobiology, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

Franck Biet

Affiliation UR1282, Infectiologie Animale, Sante' Publique (IASP-311), INRA, Nouzilly, France

Alexander Dose

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute for Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Mathieu Carpentier

Affiliations Univ Lille Nord de France, Lille, France, CNRS UMR8576 Structural and Functional Glycobiology, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

Dirk Schwarzer

Affiliation Interfaculty Institute for Biochemistry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Fabrice Allain

Affiliations Univ Lille Nord de France, Lille, France, CNRS UMR8576 Structural and Functional Glycobiology, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

Guy Lippens

Contributed equally to this work with: Guy Lippens, Camille Locht

guy.lippens@univ-lille1.fr

Affiliations Univ Lille Nord de France, Lille, France, CNRS UMR8576 Structural and Functional Glycobiology, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France

Camille Locht

Contributed equally to this work with: Guy Lippens, Camille Locht

Affiliations INSERM U1019, Lille, France, CNRS UMR 8204, Lille, France, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Center for Infection and Immunity of Lille, Lille, France, Univ Lille Nord de France, Lille, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PL DR BF JMW MC FA GL. Performed the experiments: PL BF JMW MC FA GL. Analyzed the data: PL DR MC FA GL CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FB AD DS GL. Wrote the paper: PL DR GL CL.