About the Authors

Gonzalo Ferreira

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ferreira@fmed.edu.uy

‡ Joint Senior Authors

Affiliation Departamento de Biofísica, Laboratorio de Canales Iónicos y Señalización Celular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

Carlos Costa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Biofísica, Laboratorio de Canales Iónicos y Señalización Celular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

Verónica Bassaizteguy

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Biofísica, Laboratorio de Canales Iónicos y Señalización Celular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

Marcelo Santos

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Biofísica, Laboratorio de Canales Iónicos y Señalización Celular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

Romina Cardozo

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Biofísica, Laboratorio de Canales Iónicos y Señalización Celular, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

José Montes

Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fertilab, Montevideo, Uruguay

Robert Settineri

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sierra Productions Research, LLC, Irvine, California, United States of America

Garth L. Nicolson

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ Joint Senior Authors

Affiliation Dept. of Molecular Pathology, The Institute for Molecular Medicine, Huntington Beach, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that Robert Settineri and Jose Montes are members of the following commercial companies: Sierra Productions Research, LLC and Fertilab, respectively. Gonzalo Ferreira, Carlos Costa, Veronica Bassaizteguy, Romina Cardozo and Marcelo Santos are affiliated with/employed by Universidad de la República and CSIC. Garth L. Nicolson is affiliated with/employed by The Institute for Molecular Medicine and is a part-time consultant to Allergy Research Group. The commercial and academic affiliations stated above for all authors, as well as their employment, consultancy, patents, products in development, or marketed products, etc, do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.