About the Authors

Chen Guttman

Affiliations Departments of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel, National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel

Geula Davidov

Affiliations Departments of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel, National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel

Hadassa Shaked

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

Sofiya Kolusheva

Affiliation Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

Ronit Bitton

Affiliations Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel, Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Atish Ganguly

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jeff F. Miller

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jordan H. Chill

Jordan.Chill@biu.ac.il (JHC); zarivach@bgu.ac.il (RZ)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

Raz Zarivach

Jordan.Chill@biu.ac.il (JHC); zarivach@bgu.ac.il (RZ)

Affiliations Departments of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel, National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CG GD SK JHC RZ. Performed the experiments: CG GD HS SK AG. Analyzed the data: CG GD SK RB JHC RZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB JFM JHC RZ. Wrote the paper: CG SK RB AG JFM JHC RZ.