About the Authors

Anastasia Vasilyeva

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Ilda Santos Sanches

isanches@fct.unl.pt

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, Centro de Recursos Microbiológicos (CREM) and Research Unit on Applied Molecular Biosciences (UCIBIO, REQUIMTE), Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

Carlos Florindo

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Lisbon, Portugal

Alexander Dmitriev

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, Department of Fundamental Problems of Medicine and Medical Technologies, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AD IS. Performed the experiments: AV CF. Analyzed the data: AV CF AD IS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AD IS. Wrote the paper: AV CF AD IS.