About the Authors

Carolina Vizcaíno

Contributed equally to this work with: Carolina Vizcaíno, Daniel Restrepo-Montoya

Affiliations Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia – FIDIC, Bogotá, Colombia, Microbiology postgraduate program, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

Daniel Restrepo-Montoya

Contributed equally to this work with: Carolina Vizcaíno, Daniel Restrepo-Montoya

Affiliations Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia – FIDIC, Bogotá, Colombia, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia, Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory – LISI, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, Research Group on Combinatorial Algorithms – ALGOS-UN, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Diana Rodríguez

Affiliations Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia – FIDIC, Bogotá, Colombia, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

Luis F. Niño

Affiliations Intelligent Systems Research Laboratory – LISI, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, Research Group on Combinatorial Algorithms – ALGOS-UN, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Marisol Ocampo

Affiliations Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia – FIDIC, Bogotá, Colombia, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

Magnolia Vanegas

Affiliations Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia – FIDIC, Bogotá, Colombia, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

María T. Reguero

Affiliation Instituto de Biotecnología – IBUN, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Nora L. Martínez

Affiliations Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia – FIDIC, Bogotá, Colombia, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

Manuel E. Patarroyo

Affiliations Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia – FIDIC, Bogotá, Colombia, School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Manuel A. Patarroyo

mapatarr.fidic@gmail.com

Affiliations Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia – FIDIC, Bogotá, Colombia, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, Colombia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LFN MO MTR NLM MEP MAP. Performed the experiments: CV DRM DR MV. Analyzed the data: CV DRM LFN MO MTR NLM MEP MAP. Wrote the paper: CV DRM MEP MAP. Synthesized the peptides: MV.