About the Authors

Miguel A. De la Cruz

Affiliations Aix-Marseille University, CIML, Marseille, France, CNRS, UMR 7280, Marseille, France, INSERM, U631, Marseille, France

Weidong Zhao

Affiliations Aix-Marseille University, CIML, Marseille, France, CNRS, UMR 7280, Marseille, France, INSERM, U631, Marseille, France

Carine Farenc

Affiliations Aix-Marseille University, AFMB, Marseille, France, CNRS, UMR 7257, Marseille, France

Grégory Gimenez

Affiliation URMITE, CNRS-IRD UMR 6236, Marseille, France

Didier Raoult

Affiliation URMITE, CNRS-IRD UMR 6236, Marseille, France

Christian Cambillau

Affiliations Aix-Marseille University, AFMB, Marseille, France, CNRS, UMR 7257, Marseille, France

Jean-Pierre Gorvel

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean-Pierre Gorvel, Stéphane Méresse

Affiliations Aix-Marseille University, CIML, Marseille, France, CNRS, UMR 7280, Marseille, France, INSERM, U631, Marseille, France

Stéphane Méresse

Contributed equally to this work with: Jean-Pierre Gorvel, Stéphane Méresse

meresse@ciml.univ-mrs.fr

Affiliations Aix-Marseille University, CIML, Marseille, France, CNRS, UMR 7280, Marseille, France, INSERM, U631, Marseille, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MADlC CF GG DR CC JPG SM. Performed the experiments: MADlC WZ CF CC SM. Analyzed the data: MADlC WZ CF GG DR CC JPG SM. Wrote the paper: MADlC CF GG CC SM.