About the Authors

Doreen Harcus

Contributed equally to this work with: Doreen Harcus, Daniel Dignard

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Daniel Dignard

Contributed equally to this work with: Doreen Harcus, Daniel Dignard

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Guylaine Lépine

Affiliation Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Chris Askew

Affiliation Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Martine Raymond

Affiliation Institut de Recherche en Immunologie et en Cancérologie (IRIC), Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Malcolm Whiteway

Malcolm.whiteway@concordia.ca (MW); cunle.wu@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca (CW)

Affiliations Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Cunle Wu

Malcolm.whiteway@concordia.ca (MW); cunle.wu@cnrc-nrc.gc.ca (CW)

Affiliations Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Medicine, Division of Experimental Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MW CW MR. Performed the experiments: DH DD GL CA. Analyzed the data: MW CW. Wrote the manuscript: MW CW.