About the Authors

Ana C. Figueiredo

Contributed equally to this work with: Ana C. Figueiredo, Cristina C. Clement

Affiliation IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Cristina C. Clement

Contributed equally to this work with: Ana C. Figueiredo, Cristina C. Clement

cristina.clement@lehman.cuny.edu (CC); manfred.philipp@lehman.cuny.edu (MP); ppereira@ibmc.up.pt (PP)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Lehman College & Biochemistry Program, CUNY Graduate School, New York, New York, United States of America

Sheuli Zakia

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Lehman College & Biochemistry Program, CUNY Graduate School, New York, New York, United States of America

Julian Gingold

Affiliation MD Program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Manfred Philipp

cristina.clement@lehman.cuny.edu (CC); manfred.philipp@lehman.cuny.edu (MP); ppereira@ibmc.up.pt (PP)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Lehman College & Biochemistry Program, CUNY Graduate School, New York, New York, United States of America

Pedro J. B. Pereira

cristina.clement@lehman.cuny.edu (CC); manfred.philipp@lehman.cuny.edu (MP); ppereira@ibmc.up.pt (PP)

Affiliation IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ACF CCC MP PJBP. Performed the experiments: ACF CCC SZ JG MP PJBP. Analyzed the data: ACF CCC MP PJBP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CCC MP PJBP. Wrote the paper: ACF CCC MP PJBP.