About the Authors
- Tiago Beites
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tiago Beites, Sílvia D. S. Pires
Affiliations IBMC – Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências (FCUP), Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Sílvia D. S. Pires
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Contributed equally to this work with: Tiago Beites, Sílvia D. S. Pires
Affiliations IBMC – Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, ICBAS – Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Catarina L. Santos
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Affiliation IBMC – Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Hugo Osório
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Affiliation IPATIMUP - Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Pedro Moradas-Ferreira
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Affiliations IBMC – Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal, ICBAS – Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Marta V. Mendes
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* E-mail: mvm@ibmc.up.pt
Affiliation IBMC – Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Competing Interests
A Portuguese provisional patent application based on this study was filed by IBMC, the institution to which TB, SP, CLS, PMF and MVM are affiliated; Reference Number 105848. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: TB MVM. Performed the experiments: TB SDSP CLS HO MVM. Analyzed the data: TB CLS MVM. Wrote the paper: TB MVM. Participated in critical discussions and provided valuable suggestions: PM-F.