About the Authors

Ricardo Pariona-Llanos

Affiliations Laboratório Especial de Ciclo Celular, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil, Center of Toxins, Immune Response and Cell Signaling—CeTICS, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil

Raphael Souza Pavani

Affiliations Laboratório Especial de Ciclo Celular, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil, Center of Toxins, Immune Response and Cell Signaling—CeTICS, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil

Marcelo Reis

Affiliations Laboratório Especial de Ciclo Celular, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil, Center of Toxins, Immune Response and Cell Signaling—CeTICS, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil

Vincent Noël

Affiliations Laboratório Especial de Ciclo Celular, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil, Center of Toxins, Immune Response and Cell Signaling—CeTICS, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil

Ariel Mariano Silber

Affiliation Unit for Drug Discovery—Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Hugo Aguirre Armelin

Affiliations Laboratório Especial de Ciclo Celular, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil, Center of Toxins, Immune Response and Cell Signaling—CeTICS, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil, Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Maria Isabel Nogueira Cano

Affiliation Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho—UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil

Maria Carolina Elias

carolina.eliassabbaga@butantan.gov.br

Affiliations Laboratório Especial de Ciclo Celular, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil, Center of Toxins, Immune Response and Cell Signaling—CeTICS, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

Maria Carolina Elias is academic editor of PLoS One. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RPL RSP MSR VN AMS HAA MINC MCE. Performed the experiments: RPL RSP VN. Analyzed the data: RPL RSP MSR VN AMS HAA MINC MCE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MCE AMS. Wrote the paper: MCE MINC MSR.