About the Authors

Mamduh Khateb

Contributed equally to this work with: Mamduh Khateb, Nitsan Fourier

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Nitsan Fourier

Contributed equally to this work with: Mamduh Khateb, Nitsan Fourier

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Ofer Barnea-Yizhar

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Sigal Ram

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Ekaterina Kovalev

Affiliation Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Aviva Azriel

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Ulfert Rand

Affiliation Department of Gene Regulation and Differentiation, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Manabu Nakayama

Affiliation Department of Technology Development, Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Kazusa-Kamatari, Kazusa, Japan

Hansjörg Hauser

Affiliation Department of Gene Regulation and Differentiation, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

Lior Gepstein

Affiliation Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Ben-Zion Levi

blevi@technion.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BZL HH LG. Performed the experiments: MK NF OBY SR EK AA UR. Analyzed the data: MK NF OYB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MN. Wrote the paper: BZL NF MK UR HH.