About the Authors

Ana Carolina Monteiro

Affiliation Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Verônica Schmitz

Affiliation Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Alexandre Morrot

Affiliation Intracellular Parasite Biology Section Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Luciana Barros de Arruda

Affiliation Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Goes, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fnu Nagajyothi

Affiliation Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Alessandra Granato

Affiliation Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

João B Pesquero

Affiliation Departmento de Biofisica, USP, São Paulo, Brazil

Werner Müller-Esterl

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry II, University of Frankfurt Medical School, Frankfurt, Germany

Herbert B Tanowitz

Affiliation Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Julio Scharfstein

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: scharf@biof.ufrj.br

Affiliation Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

ACM and JS conceived and designed the experiments. ACM, VS, LBdA, FN, AG, and HBT performed the experiments. ACM, VS, AM, LBdA, WME, HBT, and JS analyzed the data. JBP, WME, HBT, and JS contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. ACM, AM, and JS wrote the paper.