About the Authors

K. Kirki Tsigkari

Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Centre “Alexander Fleming”, Vari, Greece

Summer F. Acevedo

Current address: Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Centre “Alexander Fleming”, Vari, Greece

Efthimios M. C. Skoulakis

skoulakis@fleming.gr

Affiliation Biomedical Sciences Research Centre “Alexander Fleming”, Vari, Greece

Competing Interests

Co-author EMCS is a PLoS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EMCS KKT SFA. Performed the experiments: KKT SFA. Analyzed the data: EMCS KKT. Wrote the paper: KKT EMCS.