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Affiliations

• ¹ VIB Department of Medical Protein Research, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium kevin.titeca@vib-ugent.be.
• ² VIB Center for the Biology of Disease, Leuven, Belgium Center for Human Genetics, Leuven Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ³ Peripheral Neuropathy Group, VIB Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
• ⁴ Unit Immunoregulation and Mucosal Immunology, GROUP-ID Consortium, VIB Inflammation Research Center, Ghent, Belgium Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
• ⁵ Unit of Molecular and Cellular Oncology, VIB Inflammation Research Center, Ghent, Belgium Department of Biomedical Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium Laboratory for Molecular Cancer Biology, VIB Center for the Biology of Disease Laboratory for Molecular Cancer Biology, Leuven, Belgium.
• ⁶ VIB Department of Medical Protein Research, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium Department of Biochemistry, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
• ⁷ VIB Structural Biology Research Center, Brussels, Belgium Structural Biology Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁸ VIB Department of Molecular Microbiology, Leuven, Belgium Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology Institute of Botany and Microbiology KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Department of Biosystems, Division of Crop Biotechnics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.