About the Authors

Cristiani Baldo

Affiliation Laboratório de Imunopatologia, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil

Colin Jamora

Affiliation Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Norma Yamanouye

Affiliation Laboratório de Farmacologia, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil

Telma M. Zorn

Affiliation Laboratório da Biologia da Reprodução e Matriz Extracelular, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, USP, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil

Ana M. Moura-da-Silva

anamoura@butantan.gov.br

Affiliation Laboratório de Imunopatologia, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB AMMdS. Performed the experiments: CB NY. Analyzed the data: CB CJ NY TMZ AMMdS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CJ TMZ AMMdS. Wrote the paper: CB CJ NY TMZ AMMdS.