About the Authors

Víctor A. Francis

Contributed equally to this work with: Víctor A. Francis, Aron B. Abera

Affiliation MRC/UCT Receptor Biology Unit, Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and Division of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Aron B. Abera

Contributed equally to this work with: Víctor A. Francis, Aron B. Abera

Affiliation MRC/UCT Receptor Biology Unit, Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and Division of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Mushi Matjila

Affiliations MRC/UCT Receptor Biology Unit, Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and Division of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Groote Schuur Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Robert P. Millar

Affiliations MRC/UCT Receptor Biology Unit, Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and Division of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Mammal Research Institute, Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Centre for Integrated Physiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Arieh A. Katz

arieh.katz@uct.ac.za

Affiliation MRC/UCT Receptor Biology Unit, Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine and Division of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VAF RPM AAK. Performed the experiments: VAF ABA MM. Analyzed the data: VAF ABA MM. Wrote the paper: VAF RPM AAK.