About the Authors

Baruch E. Bulvik

This paper is part of the Ph.D. thesis of BEB approved by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, May 2012.

Affiliation Departments of Cellular Biochemistry and Human Genetics, Faculties of Dental Medicine and Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Eduard Berenshtein

Affiliation Departments of Cellular Biochemistry and Human Genetics, Faculties of Dental Medicine and Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Esther G. Meyron-Holtz

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular Nutrition, Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa, Israel

Abraham M. Konijn

Contributed equally to this work with: Abraham M. Konijn, Mordechai Chevion

amkonijn@gmail.com

Affiliation Human Nutrition and Metabolism, Faculties of Dental Medicine and Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Mordechai Chevion

Contributed equally to this work with: Abraham M. Konijn, Mordechai Chevion

Affiliation Departments of Cellular Biochemistry and Human Genetics, Faculties of Dental Medicine and Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BEB MC AMK. Performed the experiments: BEB EB EGMH. Analyzed the data: BEB EB MC AMK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMK EGMH. Wrote the paper: BEB AMK MC.