About the Authors
- Filipa P. Reis
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Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica - ITQB, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
- Ana Barbas
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Current address: Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Oeiras, Portugal
Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica - ITQB, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
- A. A. Klauer-King
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Borislava Tsanova
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Daneen Schaeffer
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Current address: Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Eduardo López-Viñas
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Affiliations Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa” (CSIC-UAM), Campus Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Biomol-Informatics SL, Madrid, Spain
- Paulino Gómez-Puertas
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Affiliation Centro de Biologia Molecular “Severo Ochoa” (CSIC-UAM), Campus Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Ambro van Hoof
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Cecília M. Arraiano
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* E-mail: cecilia@itqb.unl.pt
Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica - ITQB, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal
Competing Interests
All the authors have declared that no competing interests exist. One of the authors was employed by a commercial company (Biomol-Informatics SL) at the time of the preparation of the manuscript but does not work there presently. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: FPR AB AAKK DS ELV PGP AVH CMA. Performed the experiments: FPR AB AAKK BT DS ELV. Analyzed the data: FPR AB AAKK BT DS ELV PGP AVH CMA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PGP AVH CMA. Wrote the paper: FPR AB AAKK DS ELV PGP AVH CMA.