About the Authors

Raimundo Fernandes de Araújo Júnior

Contributed equally to this work with: Raimundo Fernandes de Araújo Júnior, Vinícius Barreto Garcia

araujojr@cb.ufrn.br

Affiliations Postgraduate Program in Health Science, UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil, Postgraduate Program in Functional and Structural Biology/Department of Morphology/UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil

Vinícius Barreto Garcia

Contributed equally to this work with: Raimundo Fernandes de Araújo Júnior, Vinícius Barreto Garcia

Affiliation Postgraduate Program in Health Science, UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil

Renata Ferreira de Carvalho Leitão

Affiliation Department of Morphology/Postgraduate Program in Morphology/UFC, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

Gerly Anne de Castro Brito

Affiliation Department of Morphology/Postgraduate Program in Morphology/UFC, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

Emilio de Castro Miguel

Affiliation Department of Physical/Analytical Center/UFC, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil

Paulo Marcos Matta Guedes

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, UFRN, Natal, RN, Brazil

Aurigena Antunes de Araújo

Affiliation Department of Biophysics and Pharmacology, UFRN, Postgraduate Programs in Public Health and Pharmaceutical Science, Natal, RN, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RFAJ. Performed the experiments: RFAJ VBG AAA. Analyzed the data: RFAJ AAA VBG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RFAJ AAA RFCL ECM GACB PMMG. Wrote the paper: RFAJ VBG.