About the Authors

Galit Kuznets

Affiliation B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – I.I.T. and the Rappaport Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences, Haifa, Israel

Elena Vigonsky

Affiliation B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – I.I.T. and the Rappaport Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences, Haifa, Israel

Ziva Weissman

Affiliation B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – I.I.T. and the Rappaport Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences, Haifa, Israel

Daniela Lalli

Affiliation CERM and Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

Tsvia Gildor

Affiliation B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – I.I.T. and the Rappaport Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences, Haifa, Israel

Sarah J. Kauffman

Affiliation Microbiology Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Paola Turano

Affiliation CERM and Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

Jeffrey Becker

Affiliation Microbiology Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Oded Lewinson

Affiliation B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – I.I.T. and the Rappaport Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences, Haifa, Israel

Daniel Kornitzer

danielk@tx.technion.ac.il

Affiliation B. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion – I.I.T. and the Rappaport Institute for Research in the Medical Sciences, Haifa, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GK OL DK. Performed the experiments: GK DL SJK DK. Analyzed the data: GK EV DL PT JB OL DK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GK ZW TG. Wrote the paper: GK DK.