About the Authors

Migla Miskinyte

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Ana Sousa

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Ricardo S. Ramiro

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Jorge A. Moura de Sousa

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Jerzy Kotlinowski

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Iris Caramalho

Affiliations Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal, Unidade de Imunologia Clínica, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Sara Magalhães

Affiliation Centro Biologia Ambiental, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Miguel P. Soares

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Isabel Gordo

igordo@igc.gulbenkian.pt

Affiliation Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IG IC SM MPS. Performed the experiments: MM AS RSR JAMdS JK. Analyzed the data: MM AS RSR JAMdS JK IG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IG SM IC MPS. Wrote the paper: IG. Read and critically revised the manuscript: MM AS RSR JAMdS SM IC MPS IG .