About the Authors

Vitaly A. Selivanov

selivanov@ub.edu (VAS); martacascante@ub.edu (MC)

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Institute of Biomedicine of Universitat de Barcelona (IBUB) and CSIC-Associated Unit, Barcelona, Spain, A.N.Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Marta Cascante

selivanov@ub.edu (VAS); martacascante@ub.edu (MC)

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Institute of Biomedicine of Universitat de Barcelona (IBUB) and CSIC-Associated Unit, Barcelona, Spain

Mark Friedman

Affiliation Mathematical Sciences Department, University of Alabama Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, United States of America

Mark F. Schumaker

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Massimo Trucco

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Tatyana V. Votyakova

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and The Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VAS TVV. Performed the experiments: TVV. Analyzed the data: VAS MC MF MFS MT TVV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VAS TVV. Wrote the paper: VAS MC MF MFS MT TVV.