About the Authors

Peter Rohloff

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology and Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Kildare Miranda

Affiliations Department of Cellular Biology and Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Juliany C. F. Rodrigues

Affiliations Department of Cellular Biology and Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Instituto de Biofisica Carlos Chagas Filho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Jianmin Fang

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology and Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Melina Galizzi

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology and Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Helmut Plattner

Affiliation Fachbereich Biologie, Universitaet Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Joachim Hentschel

Affiliation Fachbereich Biologie, Universitaet Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

Silvia N. J. Moreno

smoreno@uga.edu

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology and Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PR KM SNJM. Performed the experiments: PR KM JCFR MG JF JH. Analyzed the data: PR KM HP SNJM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HP. Wrote the paper: PR SNJM.