About the Authors

Lénia Rodrigues

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Nikita Popov

Affiliation Theodor Boveri Institute, Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Kenneth M. Kaye

Affiliation Channing Laboratory and Departments of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

J. Pedro Simas

psimas@fm.ul.pt

Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LR JPS. Performed the experiments: LR. Analyzed the data: LR NP KMK JPS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NP. Wrote the paper: LR JPS.