About the Authors

Manuela Salvucci

manuela.salvucci@gmail.com

Affiliation School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Zoltan Neufeld

Affiliation School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Philip Newsholme

Affiliations School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Obtained permission for use of BRIN-BD11 cell line: PN. Conceived and designed the experiments: MS ZN PN. Performed the experiments: MS. Analyzed the data: MS ZN PN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS ZN PN. Wrote the paper: MS ZN PN.