About the Authors

Rania F. Zaarour

Contributed equally to this work with: Rania F. Zaarour, Dafne Chirivino

Current address: Sharjah institute for medical research, University of Sharjah/Medical College, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Affiliation Institut Curie-Unité Mixte de Recherche Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France

Dafne Chirivino

Contributed equally to this work with: Rania F. Zaarour, Dafne Chirivino

Affiliation Institut Curie-Unité Mixte de Recherche Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France

Laurence Del Maestro

Affiliation Institut Curie-Unité Mixte de Recherche Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France

Laurent Daviet

Current address: Firmenich SA Geneva, Switzerland

Affiliation Hybrigenics, Paris, France

Azeddine Atfi

Affiliation INSERM U, Hôpital St-Antoine, Paris, France

Daniel Louvard

Affiliation Institut Curie-Unité Mixte de Recherche Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France

Monique Arpin

marpin@curie.fr

Affiliation Institut Curie-Unité Mixte de Recherche Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France

Competing Interests

LD was employed by the company, Hybrigenics. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RZ DC MA. Performed the experiments: RZ DC LDM LD. Analyzed the data: RZ DC LD MA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LD AA. Wrote the paper: RZ MA. Critical reading of the manuscript: DL.