About the Authors

Manuel Pazos

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Biotecnología - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain

Mercedes Casanova

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Biotecnología - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain

Pilar Palacios

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Biotecnología - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain

William Margolin

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Paolo Natale

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Biotecnología - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain

Miguel Vicente

mvicente@cnb.csic.es

These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Centro Nacional de Biotecnología - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MP PN MV. Performed the experiments: MP PP MC PN. Analyzed the data: MP PN MV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MP MC PP WM PN MV. Wrote the paper: MP WM PN MV. Secured funds: MV WM.