About the Authors

Katia C. Oliveira

Affiliation Laboratory of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Mariana L. P. Carvalho

Affiliation Laboratory of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Thiago M. Venancio

Current address: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.

Affiliation Laboratory of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Patricia A. Miyasato

Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitology, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil

Toshie Kawano

Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitology, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil

Ricardo DeMarco

Affiliation Departamento de Física e Informática, Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil

Sergio Verjovski-Almeida

verjo@iq.usp.br

Affiliation Laboratory of Gene Expression in Eukaryotes, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KCO RD SVA. Performed the experiments: KCO MLC PAM RD. Analyzed the data: KCO TMV RD SVA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TMV PAM TK. Wrote the paper: KCO SVA.