About the Authors

Suely Maymone de Melo

Affiliation Research Center for Gene Therapy (CINTERGEN) of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Simone Bittencourt

Affiliation Department of Physiology of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Enéas Galdini Ferrazoli

Affiliation Department of Physiology of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Clivandir Severino da Silva

Affiliation Department of Physiology of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Flavia Franco da Cunha

Affiliation Research Center for Gene Therapy (CINTERGEN) of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Flavia Helena da Silva

Affiliation Research Center for Gene Therapy (CINTERGEN) of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Roberta Sessa Stilhano

Affiliation Research Center for Gene Therapy (CINTERGEN) of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Priscila Martins Andrade Denapoli

Affiliation Research Center for Gene Therapy (CINTERGEN) of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Bianca Ferrarini Zanetti

Affiliation Research Center for Gene Therapy (CINTERGEN) of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Priscila Keiko Matsumoto Martin

Affiliation Research Center for Gene Therapy (CINTERGEN) of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Leonardo Martins Silva

Affiliation Research Center for Gene Therapy (CINTERGEN) of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Adara Aurea dos Santos

Affiliation Research Center for Gene Therapy (CINTERGEN) of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Leandra Santos Baptista

Affiliation Numpex-Bio, Nucleus of Multidisciplinary Research in Biology of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro–Xerém, São Paulo, Brazil

Beatriz Monteiro Longo

Affiliation Department of Physiology of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Sang Won Han

sang.han@unifesp.br

Affiliations Research Center for Gene Therapy (CINTERGEN) of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Department of Biophysics of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SWH BML SMM SB EGF CSS FFC FHS RSS PMAD BFZ PKMM LMS AAS LSB. Performed the experiments: SMM FFC FHS RSS LSB PKMM AAS PMAD SB EGF CSS LMS. Analyzed the data: SMM BML SWH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SWH BML. Wrote the paper: SWH SMM BML.