About the Authors

Pedro Arêde

Affiliation CREM, Department of Life Sciences, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

Catarina Milheiriço

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

Hermínia de Lencastre

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal, Laboratory of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Duarte C. Oliveira

dco@fct.unl.pt

Affiliation CREM, Department of Life Sciences, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DCO. Performed the experiments: PA CM DCO. Analyzed the data: DCO PA HdL. Wrote the paper: DCO.