About the Authors

Nicolas Maubourguet

Affiliations Unité Neurobiologie Intégrative des Systèmes Cholinergiques, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, CNRS, URA 2182, Paris, France

Annick Lesne

Current address: LPTMC, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Affiliation Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France

Jean-Pierre Changeux

Affiliations Unité Neurobiologie Intégrative des Systèmes Cholinergiques, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, CNRS, URA 2182, Paris, France

Uwe Maskos

Affiliations Unité Neurobiologie Intégrative des Systèmes Cholinergiques, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, CNRS, URA 2182, Paris, France

Philippe Faure

phfaure@pasteur.fr

Affiliations Unité Neurobiologie Intégrative des Systèmes Cholinergiques, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France, CNRS, URA 2182, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PF. Performed the experiments: NM. Analyzed the data: NM PF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AL JPC UM PF. Wrote the paper: NM AL JPC UM PF. Worked on the mathematical aspects underlying the methods for analyzing the sequences and their interpretation: AL.