About the Authors

Ori Nov

Contributed equally to this work with: Ori Nov, Hagit Shapiro

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Hagit Shapiro

Contributed equally to this work with: Ori Nov, Hagit Shapiro

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Hilla Ovadia

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Tanya Tarnovscki

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Irit Dvir

Affiliation Chemistry and Life Sciences Program, Department of Industrial Management, Sapir Academic College, Hof Ashkelon, Israel

Elad Shemesh

Affiliations Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, The Goldman Medical School, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Julia Kovsan

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Ilan Shelef

Affiliations The Goldman Medical School, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Department of Radiology, Soroka Academic Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Yaron Carmi

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Elena Voronov

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Ron N. Apte

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Eli Lewis

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Yulia Haim

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Daniel Konrad

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology and Children Research’s Centre, University Children's Hospital and Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Nava Bashan

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Assaf Rudich

rudich@bgu.ac.il

Affiliations Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, The National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ON HS HO TT ES JK IS YH NB AR. Performed the experiments: ON HS HO TT ID JK YH ES. Analyzed the data: RA EL YH DK NB ON HS HO ID JK YH NB AR ES IS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ON HS HO ID ES JK IS RA EL RA YC EV. Wrote the paper: ON HS NB AR.