About the Authors

Ana Camejo

Affiliation IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Group of Molecular Microbiology, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Carmen Buchrieser

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, UP Biologie des Bactéries Intracellulaires and CNRS URA 2171, Paris, France

Elisabeth Couvé

Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unité Génétique des Génomes Bactériens CNRS URA 2171, Paris, France

Filipe Carvalho

Affiliation IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Group of Molecular Microbiology, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Olga Reis

Affiliation IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Group of Molecular Microbiology, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Pierre Ferreira

Affiliation IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Group of Molecular Microbiology, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Sandra Sousa

Affiliation IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Group of Molecular Microbiology, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Pascale Cossart

Affiliations Institut Pasteur, Unité des Interactions Bactéries-Cellules, Paris, France, Inserm U604, Paris, France, INRA USC2020, Paris, France

Didier Cabanes

didier@ibmc.up.pt

Affiliation IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Group of Molecular Microbiology, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC DC. Performed the experiments: AC EC FC OR PF SS DC. Analyzed the data: AC CB DC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AC CB EC FC OR PF PC. Wrote the paper: AC CB SS PC DC.