About the Authors
- Débora L. Oliveira
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Contributed equally to this work with: Débora L. Oliveira, Ernesto S. Nakayasu
Affiliation Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Bioquímica Microbiana, Instituto de Microbiologia Professor Paulo de Góes, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Ernesto S. Nakayasu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Débora L. Oliveira, Ernesto S. Nakayasu
Current address: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The Border Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America
- Luna S. Joffe
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Affiliation Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Bioquímica Microbiana, Instituto de Microbiologia Professor Paulo de Góes, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Allan J. Guimarães
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Tiago J. P. Sobreira
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Affiliation Laboratory of Genetics and Molecular Cardiology, Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Joshua D. Nosanchuk
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Radames J. B. Cordero
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Susana Frases
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Affiliation Laboratório de Biotecnologia, Instituto Nacional de Metrologia, Normalização e Qualidade Industrial, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Arturo Casadevall
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Affiliations Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America
- Igor C. Almeida
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, The Border Biomedical Research Center, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, United States of America
- Leonardo Nimrichter
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¶These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Bioquímica Microbiana, Instituto de Microbiologia Professor Paulo de Góes, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Marcio L. Rodrigues
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* E-mail: marcio@micro.ufrj.br
Affiliation Laboratório de Estudos Integrados em Bioquímica Microbiana, Instituto de Microbiologia Professor Paulo de Góes, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: DLO ESN JDN AC ICA LN MLR. Performed the experiments: DLO ESN LSJ AJG RJBC SF LN. Analyzed the data: DLO ESN TJPS RJBC ICA MLR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JDN AC ICA MLR. Wrote the paper: DLO JDN AC ICA LN MLR.