About the Authors

Bernardita Chirino

Contributed equally to this work with: Bernardita Chirino, Erwin Strahsburger

Affiliation Laboratorio de Microbiología Molecular y Biotecnología Ambiental, Departamento de Química and Center for Nanotechnology and Systems Biology, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile

Erwin Strahsburger

Contributed equally to this work with: Bernardita Chirino, Erwin Strahsburger

Affiliation Laboratorio de Microbiología Molecular y Biotecnología Ambiental, Departamento de Química and Center for Nanotechnology and Systems Biology, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile

Loreine Agulló

Affiliation Laboratorio de Microbiología Molecular y Biotecnología Ambiental, Departamento de Química and Center for Nanotechnology and Systems Biology, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile

Myriam González

Affiliation Laboratorio de Microbiología Molecular y Biotecnología Ambiental, Departamento de Química and Center for Nanotechnology and Systems Biology, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile

Michael Seeger

michael.seeger@usm.cl

Affiliation Laboratorio de Microbiología Molecular y Biotecnología Ambiental, Departamento de Química and Center for Nanotechnology and Systems Biology, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BC ES LA MG MS. Performed the experiments: BC ES LA MG. Analyzed the data: BC ES LA MG MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG MS. Wrote the paper: BC ES LA MS.