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 cv Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany

Sandra Macedo-Ribeiro

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

Nuno Santarém

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

Nilanjan Roy

Affiliation Ashok & Rita Patel Institute of Integrated Study & Research in Biotechnology & Allied Sciences, New Vallabh Vidyanagar, Dist-Anand, Gujarat, India

Anabela Cordeiro-da-Siva

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

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

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

Joana Tavares

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

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Parasite Disease Group, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular 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 JT. Analyzed the data: IL JF SMR CC JT ACdS NS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC SMR NR NS. Wrote the paper: IL JF CC SMR JT ACdS.