About the Authors

Juliana B. R. Corrêa Soares

Affiliation Laboratório de Bioquímica Redox, Programa de Biologia Molecular e Biotecnologia, Instituto de Bioquímica Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Diego Menezes

Affiliation Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, FIOCRUZ, Salvador, Brazil

Marcos A. Vannier-Santos

Affiliation Instituto Gonçalo Moniz, FIOCRUZ, Salvador, Brazil

Antonio Ferreira-Pereira

Affiliation Departamento de Microbiologia Geral, Instituto de Microbiologia Prof. Paulo de Góes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Giulliana T. Almeida

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Thiago M. Venancio

Current address: National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Sergio Verjovski-Almeida

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Vincent K. Zishiri

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa

David Kuter

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa

Roger Hunter

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa

Timothy J. Egan

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa

Marcus F. Oliveira

maroli@bioqmed.ufrj.br

Affiliation Laboratório de Bioquímica Redox, Programa de Biologia Molecular e Biotecnologia, Instituto de Bioquímica Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Competing Interests

All authors have read and approved the contents of the manuscript and none of the authors have competing financial interests. There is no significant overlap between the submitted manuscript and any other papers from the same authors under consideration or in press elsewhere.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MAVS SVA RH TJE MFO. Performed the experiments: JBRCS DM MAVS AFP GTA TMV SVA VKZ DK RH TJE MFO. Analyzed the data: JBRCS DM MAVS AFP GTA TMV SVA VKZ DK RH TJE MFO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAVS AFP SVA VKZ DK RH TJE MFO. Wrote the paper: MAVS GTA TMV SVA TJE MFO.