Acknowledgments
The authors thank The Binding Site for providing reagents. They are also grateful to Christine Taureau, Christine Bousquet, Audrey Dauba, Clarisse Benard and Jasmine Chauzeix for their excellent technical assistance.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Financial support: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
Funding: The Binding Site (Grant/Award Number: ‘The Binding Site provided reagents’).
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