**Author details**

Rogelio Salazar-Enciso<sup>1</sup> , Nohemi A. Camacho-Concha<sup>1</sup> , Thassio R. Mesquita<sup>2</sup> , Débora Falcón<sup>3</sup> , Jean-Pierre Benitah<sup>3</sup> , Ana M. Gómez<sup>3</sup> and Angélica Rueda1 \*

\*Address all correspondence to: arueda@cinvestav.mx

1 Department of Biochemistry, Cinvestav-IPN, México City, México

2 Department of Physiology, Federal University of Sergipe, Sergipe, Brazil

3 UMR-S 1180, Inserm, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Châtenay-Malabry, France

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