About the Authors

Inna Rabinovich-Nikitin

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Idan S. Rakover

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Maria Becker

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Beka Solomon

beka@post.tau.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors declare that this work was partially funded by a commercial funder NasVax (Ltd. Israel). This work was established based on patent number US7494655, which belongs to Tel Aviv University, and the inventor is Beka Solomon. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, or decision to publish. The authors confirm that this does not alter their adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BS. Performed the experiments: IRN ISR MB. Analyzed the data: IRN ISR. Wrote the paper: IRN BS.