About the Authors

Patricia López

Affiliations Immunology Area, Department of Functional Biology, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain, Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry of Dairy Products, Instituto de Productos Lácteos de Asturias (IPLA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain

Irene González-Rodríguez

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry of Dairy Products, Instituto de Productos Lácteos de Asturias (IPLA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain

Miguel Gueimonde

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry of Dairy Products, Instituto de Productos Lácteos de Asturias (IPLA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain

Abelardo Margolles

amargolles@ipla.csic.es

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Biochemistry of Dairy Products, Instituto de Productos Lácteos de Asturias (IPLA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain

Ana Suárez

Affiliation Immunology Area, Department of Functional Biology, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PL MG AM AS. Performed the experiments: PL IGR MG AM. Analyzed the data: PL MG AM AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG AM AS. Wrote the paper: PL AS.