About the Authors

Gustavo Arruda Bezerra

Contributed equally to this work with: Gustavo Arruda Bezerra, Roland Viertlmayr

bscavada@ufc.br (BSC); gustavo.bezerra@univie.ac.at (GAB)

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Roland Viertlmayr

Contributed equally to this work with: Gustavo Arruda Bezerra, Roland Viertlmayr

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Tales Rocha Moura

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

Plínio Delatorre

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology, Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, Brazil

Bruno Anderson Matias Rocha

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

Kyria Santiago do Nascimento

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

Jozi Godoy Figueiredo

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

Ingrid Gonçalves Bezerra

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

Cicero Silvano Teixeira

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

Rafael Conceição Simões

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

Celso Shiniti Nagano

Affiliation Department of Fishing Engineering, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

Nylane Maria Nunes de Alencar

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

Karl Gruber

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Benildo Sousa Cavada

bscavada@ufc.br (BSC); gustavo.bezerra@univie.ac.at (GAB)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GAB RV TRM NMNA BSC KG. Performed the experiments: GAB RV TRM JGF IGB CST RCS. Analyzed the data: GAB RV PD BAMR KSN JGF IGB CSN NMNA KG BSC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KG BSC NMNA. Wrote the paper: GAB RV BAMR CSN KG.