About the Authors

Eduardo C. Filippi-Chiela

Affiliation Department of Biophysics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Emilly Schlee Villodre

Affiliation Department of Biophysics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Lauren L. Zamin

Affiliation Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (UFFS), Cerro Largo, RS, Brazil

Guido Lenz

lenz@ufrgs.br

Affiliations Department of Biophysics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, Center of Biotechnology; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ECF-C LLZ GL. Performed the experiments: ECF-C LLZ ESV. Analyzed the data: ECF-C GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL. Wrote the paper: ECF-C GL. Contributed intellectually and read and approved the final manuscript: ECF-C ESV LLZ GL.