About the Authors

Duarte C. Oliveira

dco@fct.unl.pt

Current address: Department of Life Sciences, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Centro de Recursos Microbiológicos (CREM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal, Laboratory of Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Hermínia de Lencastre

Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal, Laboratory of Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DCO. Performed the experiments: DCO. Analyzed the data: DCO HdL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DCO HdL. Wrote the paper: DCO HdL.