About the Authors

Maria Agallou

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Agallou, Evita Athanasiou

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular Immunology, Department of Microbiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece

Evita Athanasiou

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Agallou, Evita Athanasiou

Affiliations Laboratory of Cellular Immunology, Department of Microbiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece, Chemical Engineering Laboratory, Department of Analysis, Design and Control of Chemical Processes, Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Martina Samiotaki

Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming,” Vari, Greece

George Panayotou

Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming,” Vari, Greece

Evdokia Karagouni

ekaragouni@pasteur.gr

Affiliation Laboratory of Cellular Immunology, Department of Microbiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA EK. Performed the experiments: MA EA MS. Analyzed the data: MA EA EK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EK GP. Wrote the paper: MA EA EK.