About the Authors

Paola Guglielmelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Paola Guglielmelli, Andrea Bisognin

Affiliation Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Andrea Bisognin

Contributed equally to this work with: Paola Guglielmelli, Andrea Bisognin

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Claudia Saccoman

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Carmela Mannarelli

Affiliation Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Alessandro Coppe

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Alessandro M. Vannucchi

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work as last authors.

Affiliation Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Stefania Bortoluzzi

stefania.bortoluzzi@unipd.it

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work as last authors.

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB AMV AB PG. Performed the experiments: CM PG. Analyzed the data: AB SB CS AC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMV PG SB AB CS. Wrote the paper: SB AB CS.