About the Authors

Sandra M. Carvalho

Contributed equally to this work with: Sandra M. Carvalho, Tomas G. Kloosterman

Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

Tomas G. Kloosterman

Contributed equally to this work with: Sandra M. Carvalho, Tomas G. Kloosterman

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Oscar P. Kuipers

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Ana Rute Neves

arn@itqb.unl.pt

Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SMC TGK OPK ARN. Performed the experiments: SMC TGK. Analyzed the data: SMC TGK ARN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: OPK ARN. Wrote the paper: SMC TGK OPK ARN.