About the Authors

Brigitte Vulliez-Le Normand

Contributed equally to this work with: Brigitte Vulliez-Le Normand, Michelle L. Tonkin, Mauld H. Lamarque

Affiliations Unité d'Immunologie Structurale, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, URA 2185 CNRS, Paris, France

Michelle L. Tonkin

Contributed equally to this work with: Brigitte Vulliez-Le Normand, Michelle L. Tonkin, Mauld H. Lamarque

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Mauld H. Lamarque

Contributed equally to this work with: Brigitte Vulliez-Le Normand, Michelle L. Tonkin, Mauld H. Lamarque

Affiliation UMR 5235 CNRS, Université de Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France

Susann Langer

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Sylviane Hoos

Affiliation Plate-Forme de Biophysique des Macromolécules et de leurs Interactions, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Magali Roques

Affiliation UMR 5235 CNRS, Université de Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France

Frederick A. Saul

Affiliations Unité d'Immunologie Structurale, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, URA 2185 CNRS, Paris, France

Bart W. Faber

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Biomedical Primate Research Centre, Rijswijk, The Netherlands

Graham A. Bentley

graham.bentley@pasteur.fr (GAB); mboulang@uvic.ca (MJB); mylebrun@univ-montp2.fr (ML)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Unité d'Immunologie Structurale, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, URA 2185 CNRS, Paris, France

Martin J. Boulanger

graham.bentley@pasteur.fr (GAB); mboulang@uvic.ca (MJB); mylebrun@univ-montp2.fr (ML)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Maryse Lebrun

graham.bentley@pasteur.fr (GAB); mboulang@uvic.ca (MJB); mylebrun@univ-montp2.fr (ML)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation UMR 5235 CNRS, Université de Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Patent as a conflict of interest (The content of this manuscript has been the object of a European Patent Application filed on May 6, 2011 under the application number EP 11305540.4).

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML MJB GAB. Performed the experiments: BVLN MLT MHL SL SH MR FAS MJB GAB. Analyzed the data: BVLN ML MHL MLT MJB GAB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BWF. Wrote the paper: BVLN ML MLT MJB GAB.