About the Authors

Inês Loureiro

Affiliation Parasite Disease Group, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Joana Faria

Affiliation Parasite Disease Group, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Christine Clayton

Affiliation Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg, DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany

Sandra Macedo Ribeiro

Affiliation Protein Crystallography Group, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Nilanjan Roy

Affiliation Ashok and Rita Patel Institute of Integrated Study and Research in Biotechnology and Allied Sciences, New Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India

Nuno Santarém

Affiliation Parasite Disease Group, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Joana Tavares

Contributed equally to this work with: Joana Tavares, Anabela Cordeiro-da-Silva

jtavares@ibmc.up.pt (JT); cordeiro@ibmc.up.pt (ACdS)

Affiliation Parasite Disease Group, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Anabela Cordeiro-da-Silva

Contributed equally to this work with: Joana Tavares, Anabela Cordeiro-da-Silva

jtavares@ibmc.up.pt (JT); cordeiro@ibmc.up.pt (ACdS)

Affiliations Parasite Disease Group, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IL JF JT ACdS. Performed the experiments: IL JF NS JT. Analyzed the data: IL JF SMR CC JT ACdS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC SMR NR. Wrote the paper: IL JF CC SMR JT ACdS.