About the Authors

Assaf Shapira

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Meital Gal-Tanamy

Affiliation Molecular Hepatology Research Laboratory, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Petah Tikva, Israel

Limor Nahary

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Dana Litvak-Greenfeld

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Romy Zemel

Affiliation Molecular Hepatology Research Laboratory, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Petah Tikva, Israel

Ran Tur-Kaspa

Affiliations Molecular Hepatology Research Laboratory, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Petah Tikva, Israel, Department of Medicine D and Liver Institute, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tikva, Israel

Itai Benhar

benhar@post.tau.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS MG-T LN RZ RT-K IB. Performed the experiments: AS MG-T DL-G. Analyzed the data: AS MG-T LN DL-G RZ RT-K IB. Wrote the paper: AS IB.