About the Authors

Marina de Moraes Mourão

Contributed equally to this work with: Marina de Moraes Mourão, Nathalie Dinguirard

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil

Nathalie Dinguirard

Contributed equally to this work with: Marina de Moraes Mourão, Nathalie Dinguirard

Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Glória R. Franco

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil

Timothy P. Yoshino

yoshinot@svm.vetmed.wisc.edu

Affiliation Department of Pathobiological Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TPY. Performed the experiments: MMM ND. Analyzed the data: MMM ND GRF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TPY. Wrote the paper: MMM ND TPY. Revisions of draft manuscripts: MMM ND GRF. Obtained fellowship support for MMM: GRF. Provided research funds: TPY.