About the Authors

Erez Bar-Haim

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness-Ziona, Israel

Orit Gat

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness-Ziona, Israel

Gal Markel

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness-Ziona, Israel

Hila Cohen

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness-Ziona, Israel

Avigdor Shafferman

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness-Ziona, Israel

Baruch Velan

baruch@iibr.gov.il

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness-Ziona, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EBH GM AS BV. Performed the experiments: EBH GM HC BV. Analyzed the data: EBH OG GM HC AS BV. Wrote the paper: EBH OG GM AS BV.