About the Authors

Ana Flavia Popi

afpopi@unifesp.br

Affiliation Discipline of Immunology, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil

Lika Osugui

Affiliation Discipline of Immunology, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil

Katia Regina Perez

Affiliation Department of Biophysics, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil

Ieda Maria Longo-Maugéri

Affiliation Discipline of Immunology, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil

Mario Mariano

Affiliations Discipline of Immunology, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil, Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Universidade Paulista, UNIP, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AFP. Performed the experiments: AFP LO KRP. Analyzed the data: AFP MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AFP IMLM MM. Wrote the paper: AFP MM.