About the Authors

Atila Iamarino
Fernando Lucas de Melo
Carla Torres Braconi
Paolo Marinho de Andrade Zanotto

pzanotto@usp.br

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics, Department of Microbiology, Biomedical Sciences Institute-ICB II, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AI FLM CTB PMAZ. Performed the experiments: AI FLM CTB. Analyzed the data: AI FLM CTB PMAZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AI FLM CTB PMAZ. Wrote the paper: AI FLM CTB PMAZ.