About the Authors

Assaf Shapira

Affiliations Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel, Molecular Hepatology Research Laboratory, Sackler School of Medicine, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Tel-Aviv University, Petah Tikva, Israel

Shiran Shapira

Affiliations The Integrated Cancer Prevention Center, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Meital Gal-Tanamy

Affiliation Molecular Hepatology Research Laboratory, Sackler School of Medicine, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Tel-Aviv University, Petah Tikva, Israel

Romy Zemel

Affiliation Molecular Hepatology Research Laboratory, Sackler School of Medicine, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Tel-Aviv University, Petah Tikva, Israel

Ran Tur-Kaspa

Affiliations Molecular Hepatology Research Laboratory, Sackler School of Medicine, Felsenstein Medical Research Center, Tel-Aviv University, Petah Tikva, Israel, Department of Medicine D and Liver Institute, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah Tikva, Israel

Itai Benhar

benhar@post.tau.ac.il

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS SS MGT RZ RTK IB. Performed the experiments: AS SS MGT. Analyzed the data: AS SS MGT RZ RTK IB. Wrote the paper: AS MGT RZ RTK IB.