About the Authors

Georgia Melagraki

‡ GM and EN are co-first authors

Affiliations Division of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Research Center 'Alexander Fleming', Vari, Greece, NovaMechanics Ltd, Nicosia, Cyprus

Evangelos Ntougkos

‡ GM and EN are co-first authors

Affiliation Division of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Research Center 'Alexander Fleming', Vari, Greece

Vagelis Rinotas

Affiliations Division of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Research Center 'Alexander Fleming', Vari, Greece, Laboratory of Genetics, Department of Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Christos Papaneophytou

Affiliations Veterinary School, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece, Institute for Research and Technology Thessaly (IRETETH), Volos, Greece, Department of Life and Health Sciences, School of Sciences and Engineering, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus

Georgios Leonis

Affiliation NovaMechanics Ltd, Nicosia, Cyprus

Thomas Mavromoustakos

Affiliation Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

George Kontopidis

Affiliations Veterinary School, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece, Institute for Research and Technology Thessaly (IRETETH), Volos, Greece

Eleni Douni

Affiliations Division of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Research Center 'Alexander Fleming', Vari, Greece, Laboratory of Genetics, Department of Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Antreas Afantitis

afantitis@novamechanics.com (AA); kollias@fleming.gr (GKol)

Affiliations Division of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Research Center 'Alexander Fleming', Vari, Greece, NovaMechanics Ltd, Nicosia, Cyprus

George Kollias

afantitis@novamechanics.com (AA); kollias@fleming.gr (GKol)

Affiliations Division of Immunology, Biomedical Sciences Research Center 'Alexander Fleming', Vari, Greece, Department of Experimental Physiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Competing Interests

Georgia Melagraki, Georgios Leonis and Antreas Afantitis are employed by Novamechanics Ltd, a drug design company. Other authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AA GKol. Data curation: GM EN VR CP GL TM GKon ED AA GKol. Formal analysis: GM EN VR CP GL TM GKon ED AA GKol. Funding acquisition: AA GKol. Investigation: GM EN VR CP GL TM GKon ED AA GKol. Methodology: AA GKol. Project administration: AA GKol. Resources: GM EN VR CP GL TM GKon ED AA GKol. Software: GM GL TM AA. Supervision: AA GKol. Validation: GM EN VR CP GL TM GKon ED AA GKol. Visualization: GM EN VR CP GL TM GKon ED AA GKol. Writing – original draft: GM EN VR CP GL TM GKon ED AA GKol. Writing – review & editing: GM EN VR CP GL TM GKon ED AA GKol.