About the Authors

Guillermin Agüero-Chapin

Contributed equally to this work with: Guillermin Agüero-Chapin, Aminael Sánchez-Rodríguez

Affiliations CIMAR/CIIMAR, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Molecular Simulation and Drug Design (CBQ), Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas (UCLV), Santa Clara, Cuba, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Aminael Sánchez-Rodríguez

Contributed equally to this work with: Guillermin Agüero-Chapin, Aminael Sánchez-Rodríguez

Affiliation CMPG, Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Pedro I. Hidalgo-Yanes

Affiliations Molecular Simulation and Drug Design (CBQ), Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas (UCLV), Santa Clara, Cuba, Area of Microbiology, University of León, León, Spain

Yunierkis Pérez-Castillo

Affiliation Molecular Simulation and Drug Design (CBQ), Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas (UCLV), Santa Clara, Cuba

Reinaldo Molina-Ruiz

Affiliation Molecular Simulation and Drug Design (CBQ), Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas (UCLV), Santa Clara, Cuba

Kathleen Marchal

Affiliation CMPG, Department of Microbial and Molecular Systems, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Vítor Vasconcelos

Affiliations CIMAR/CIIMAR, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Agostinho Antunes

aantunes@ciimar.up.pt

Affiliations CIMAR/CIIMAR, Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AA GACH ASR. Performed the experiments: GACH PIHY RMR YPC ASR. Analyzed the data: GACH ASR AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AA VV RMR KM. Wrote the paper: GACH ASR AA.