About the Authors

Rafaela Andrade-Vieira

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Zhaolin Xu

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Patricia Colp

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Paola A. Marignani

pmarigna@dal.ca

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RAV PM. Performed the experiments: RAV PC PAM. Analyzed the data: RAV ZX PAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PC PAM. Wrote the paper: RAV PAM.