About the Authors

Rosario Castro

Affiliation Virologie et Immunologie Moléculaires, INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Luc Jouneau

Affiliation Virologie et Immunologie Moléculaires, INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Hang-Phuong Pham

Affiliation UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7211, “Integrative Immunology” Team, Paris, France; CNRS, UMR 7211, “Immunology, Immunopathology, Immunotherapy,” Paris, France

Olivier Bouchez

Affiliation UMR INRA 0444 Laboratoire de Génétique Cellulaire, GeT-PlaGe Core Facility, Castanet Tolosan, France

Véronique Giudicelli

Affiliation IMGT, the International ImMunoGeneTics Information System, Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire LIGM, IGH, UPR CNRS 1142 and Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France

Marie-Paule Lefranc

Affiliation IMGT, the International ImMunoGeneTics Information System, Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire LIGM, IGH, UPR CNRS 1142 and Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France

Edwige Quillet

Affiliation Génétique Animale et Biologie Intégrative, INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Abdenour Benmansour

Affiliation Virologie et Immunologie Moléculaires, INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Frédéric Cazals

Affiliation INRIA Sophia-Antipolis - Méditerranée, Algorithms-Biology-Structure, Sophia-Antipolis, France

Adrien Six

Affiliation UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7211, “Integrative Immunology” Team, Paris, France; CNRS, UMR 7211, “Immunology, Immunopathology, Immunotherapy,” Paris, France

Simon Fillatreau

Affiliation Deutsches RheumaForschungszentrum, a Leibniz Institute, Berlin, Germany

Oriol Sunyer

Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Pierre Boudinot

pierre.boudinot@jouy.inra.fr

Affiliation Virologie et Immunologie Moléculaires, INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RC OB AB SF OS PB. Performed the experiments: RC OB OS PB. Analyzed the data: RC LJ HPP VG MPL AB FC AS SF OS PB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EQ. Wrote the paper: RC LJ MPL AB FC AS SF OS PB.