About the Authors

Pedro M. B. M. Coelho

Affiliations Biological Chemistry Group, Chemistry Department, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, Biomedical Engineering Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Armindo Salvador

salvador@cnc.uc.pt

Affiliation Center for Neurosciences and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Michael A. Savageau

Affiliation Biomedical Engineering Department, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PMBMC AS MAS. Performed the experiments: PMBMC. Analyzed the data: PMBMC. Wrote the paper: PMBMC AS MAS.