About the Authors

Teresa Mairal

Contributed equally to this work with: Teresa Mairal, Joan Nieto

Affiliation Unit of Glycoconjugate Chemistry, Institut de Química Avançada de Catalunya, I.Q.A.C.-C.S.I.C., Barcelona, Spain

Joan Nieto

Contributed equally to this work with: Teresa Mairal, Joan Nieto

Affiliation Laboratory of Biochemistry, Institut Químic de Sarrià, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain

Marta Pinto

Affiliation Departamento de Ingenieria Química, ETSEIB-Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Maria Rosário Almeida

Affiliation IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, and ICBAS - Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Luis Gales

Affiliation IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, and ICBAS - Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Alfredo Ballesteros

Affiliation Instituto Universitario de Química Organometálica “Enrique Moles”, Unidad Asociada al C.S.I.C. Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

José Barluenga

Affiliation Instituto Universitario de Química Organometálica “Enrique Moles”, Unidad Asociada al C.S.I.C. Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

Juan J. Pérez

Affiliation Departamento de Ingenieria Química, ETSEIB-Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Jesús T. Vázquez

Affiliation Instituto Universitario de Bio-Orgánica “Antonio González”, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain

Nuria B. Centeno

Affiliation Computer-Assisted Drug Design Laboratory, Research Group on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB) IMIM-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Maria Joao Saraiva

Affiliation IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, and ICBAS - Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Ana M. Damas

Affiliation IBMC - Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, and ICBAS - Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Antoni Planas

Affiliation Laboratory of Biochemistry, Institut Químic de Sarrià, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain

Gemma Arsequell

Affiliation Unit of Glycoconjugate Chemistry, Institut de Química Avançada de Catalunya, I.Q.A.C.-C.S.I.C., Barcelona, Spain

Gregorio Valencia

gvpqbp@iiqab.csic.es

Affiliation Unit of Glycoconjugate Chemistry, Institut de Química Avançada de Catalunya, I.Q.A.C.-C.S.I.C., Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JJP NBC MJS AD AP GA GV. Performed the experiments: TM JN MP MdRA LG JTV. Analyzed the data: MdRA AB JB NBC MJS AD AP GA GV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB JB. Wrote the paper: MdRA NBC MJS AD AP GA GV.