About the Authors

Rosamaria Lappano

Contributed equally to this work with: Rosamaria Lappano, Anna Grazia Recchia

Affiliation Department of Pharmaco-Biology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

Anna Grazia Recchia

Contributed equally to this work with: Rosamaria Lappano, Anna Grazia Recchia

Affiliation Department of Pharmaco-Biology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

Ernestina Marianna De Francesco

Affiliation Department of Pharmaco-Biology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

Tommaso Angelone

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

Maria Carmela Cerra

Affiliation Department of Pharmaco-Biology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

Didier Picard

Affiliation Département de Biologie Cellulaire, Université de Genève, Genève, Switzerland

Marcello Maggiolini

marcellomaggiolini@yahoo.it

Affiliation Department of Pharmaco-Biology, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RL AGR DP MM. Performed the experiments: RL AGR EMDF TA. Analyzed the data: RL AGR DP MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MCC. Wrote the paper: RL AGR MM.