About the Authors

Diana Tamayo

Affiliations Cellular and Molecular Biology Unit, Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas, Medellín, Colombia, Institute of Biology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

José F. Muñoz

Affiliations Cellular and Molecular Biology Unit, Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas, Medellín, Colombia, Institute of Biology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

Ángela Lopez

Affiliations Cellular and Molecular Biology Unit, Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas, Medellín, Colombia, Institute of Biology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

Martha Urán

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Science; Department of Microbiology; Universidade do São Paulo; São Paulo, Brazil

Juan Herrera

Affiliation Cellular and Molecular Biology Unit, Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas, Medellín, Colombia

Clayton L. Borges

Affiliation Laboratório de Biologia Molecular, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, ICBII, Goiânia, Brazil

Ángela Restrepo

Affiliation Cellular and Molecular Biology Unit, Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas, Medellín, Colombia

Celia M. Soares

Affiliation Laboratório de Biologia Molecular, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, ICBII, Goiânia, Brazil

Carlos P. Taborda

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Science; Department of Microbiology; Universidade do São Paulo; São Paulo, Brazil

Agostinho J. Almeida

Affiliations Cellular and Molecular Biology Unit, Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas, Medellín, Colombia, Department of Biological Sciences, School of Sciences, Universidad Eafit, Medellín, Colombia

Juan G. McEwen

Affiliations Cellular and Molecular Biology Unit, Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas, Medellín, Colombia, School of Medicine, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

Orville Hernández

orville.hernandez@udea.edu.co

Affiliations Cellular and Molecular Biology Unit, Corporación para Investigaciones Biológicas, Medellín, Colombia, MICROBA research group, School of Microbiology, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DT CLB CMS AJA JFM JGM OH. Performed the experiments: DT JFM AL MU JH. Analyzed the data: DT JFM CLB AR CMS CPT AJA JGM OH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CLB CMS CPT JGM OH. Wrote the paper: DT JFM CLB AR CMS CPT AJA JGM OH.