About the Authors

Anna Vitlin Gruber

Affiliation George E. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Shahar Nisemblat

Affiliation George E. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Gal Zizelski

Affiliation George E. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Avital Parnas

Affiliation George E. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Ron Dzikowski

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, The Institute for Medical Research Israel - Canada, The Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel

Abdussalam Azem

azema@tauex.tau.ac.il

Affiliation George E. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Celeste Weiss

Affiliation George E. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AVG SN CW GZ AP. Performed the experiments: AVG SN CW GZ. Analyzed the data: AVG SN CW GZ AP AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RD. Wrote the paper: AVG CW AA SN AP.