About the Authors

Asunción Fernández-Barral

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, CSIC-UAM, Madrid, Spain

José Luis Orgaz

Current address: Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, CSIC-UAM, Madrid, Spain

Valentí Gomez

Current address: UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, CSIC-UAM, Madrid, Spain

Luis del Peso

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, CSIC-UAM, Madrid, Spain

María José Calzada

Affiliations Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, CSIC-UAM, Madrid, Spain, Servicio de Inmunologia, Hospital de la Princesa, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa and Departamento de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Benilde Jiménez

bjimenez@iib.uam.es

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas Alberto Sols, CSIC-UAM, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AFB JLO BJ. Performed the experiments: AFB JLO. Analyzed the data: AFB JLO BJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LdP MJC. Wrote the paper: BJ AFB. Cloned the UTR reporters and performed UTR-reporter assays: VG. Contributed with the in silico search of HRE sites in SERPINF1: LP LdP.