About the Authors

Alex de Voux

Current address: Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health and Laney Graduate School, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Affiliation Medical Research Council Receptor Biology Research Unit, Division of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Mei-Chi Chan

Affiliation Medical Research Council Receptor Biology Research Unit, Division of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Asongna T. Folefoc

Current address: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Affiliation Medical Research Council Receptor Biology Research Unit, Division of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Michael T. Madziva

Affiliation Medical Research Council Receptor Biology Research Unit, School of Physiology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Colleen A. Flanagan

Colleen.Flanagan@wits.ac.za

Affiliation Medical Research Council Receptor Biology Research Unit, School of Physiology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AdV CAF. Performed the experiments: AdV CAF. Analyzed the data: AdV CAF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ATF MCC. Wrote the paper: AdV MTM CAF.