About the Authors

Marta Coelho Abrantes

Affiliations Laboratory of Stress by Antibiotics and Virulence of Enterococci, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Maria de Fátima Lopes

flopes@itqb.unl.pt

Affiliations Laboratory of Stress by Antibiotics and Virulence of Enterococci, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal, Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Oeiras, Portugal

Jan Kok

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MdFL JK MCA. Performed the experiments: MCA. Analyzed the data: MCA MdFL JK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MdFL JK. Wrote the paper: MCA MdFL JK.