About the Authors

Nophar Geifman

gifman@post.bgu.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Medical Sciences and The National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Eitan Rubin

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Genetics, Faculty of Medical Sciences and The National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NG ER. Performed the experiments: NG. Analyzed the data: NG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NG ER. Wrote the paper: NG ER.