About the Authors

Diego Segond

Contributed equally to this work with: Diego Segond, Elise Abi Khalil

Affiliations INRA, UMR 1319 Micalis, La Minière, Guyancourt, France, AgroParisTech, UMR Micalis, Jouy en Josas, France

Elise Abi Khalil

Contributed equally to this work with: Diego Segond, Elise Abi Khalil

Affiliations INRA, UMR 1319 Micalis, La Minière, Guyancourt, France, AgroParisTech, UMR Micalis, Jouy en Josas, France, Laboratory of Biotechnology, Saint-Joseph University, Beyrouth, Lebanon

Christophe Buisson

Affiliations INRA, UMR 1319 Micalis, La Minière, Guyancourt, France, AgroParisTech, UMR Micalis, Jouy en Josas, France

Nadine Daou

Affiliations INRA, UMR 1319 Micalis, La Minière, Guyancourt, France, AgroParisTech, UMR Micalis, Jouy en Josas, France, Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mireille Kallassy

Affiliation Laboratory of Biotechnology, Saint-Joseph University, Beyrouth, Lebanon

Didier Lereclus

Affiliations INRA, UMR 1319 Micalis, La Minière, Guyancourt, France, AgroParisTech, UMR Micalis, Jouy en Josas, France

Paolo Arosio

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Fadi Bou-Abdallah

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Potsdam, Potsdam, New York, United States of America

Christina Nielsen Le Roux

christina.nielsen@jouy.inra.fr

Affiliations INRA, UMR 1319 Micalis, La Minière, Guyancourt, France, AgroParisTech, UMR Micalis, Jouy en Josas, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS EAK CNLR FBA DL MK ND PA. Performed the experiments: DS EAK CB ND CNLR FBA MK. Analyzed the data: DS EAK CNLR DL FBA PA ND. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DS EAK CB FBA PA. Wrote the paper: DS EAK CNLR FBA DL MK ND PA. Immunofluorescence and the siderophore mutant studies: DS. Performed the ITC experiments and the iron release assays: EAK.