About the Authors

Sílvia A. Sousa

Contributed equally to this work with: Sílvia A. Sousa, Joana R. Feliciano

Affiliation Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Centre for Biological and Chemical Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal

Joana R. Feliciano

Contributed equally to this work with: Sílvia A. Sousa, Joana R. Feliciano

Affiliation Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Centre for Biological and Chemical Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal

Pedro F. Pinheiro

Affiliation Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Centre for Biological and Chemical Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal

Jorge H. Leitão

jorgeleitao@ist.utl.pt

Affiliations Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Centre for Biological and Chemical Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal, Department of Bioenginneering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SAS PFP JHL. Performed the experiments: SAS JRF PFP. Analyzed the data: SAS JRF PFP JHL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JHL. Wrote the paper: JHL SAS.