About the Authors

Celina M. Abreu

Affiliations Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sarah L. Price

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Erin N. Shirk

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Rodrigo D. Cunha

Affiliation Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Luiz F. Pianowski

Affiliation Kyolab, Campinas, Brazil

Janice E. Clements

Affiliation Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Amilcar Tanuri

Affiliation Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Lucio Gama

lucio@jhmi.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

LFP is a share holder of KyoLab Laboratories. He also has a contract with Amazonia Fitomedicamentos to develop the ingenol derivatives. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMA JEC AT LG. Performed the experiments: CMA SLP ENS RDC. Analyzed the data: CMA RDC LFP JEC AT LG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LFP JEC LG. Wrote the paper: CMA LG.