About the Authors
- Patrizia Puddu
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Contributed equally to this work with: Patrizia Puddu, Daniela Latorre
Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
- Daniela Latorre
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Contributed equally to this work with: Patrizia Puddu, Daniela Latorre
Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
- Maria Carollo
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Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
- Angela Catizone
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Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Histology, Forensic Medicine and Orthopedics, Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
- Giulia Ricci
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Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
- Piera Valenti
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Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences and Infectious Diseases, Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
- Sandra Gessani
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* E-mail: sandra.gessani@iss.it
Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
Competing Interests
BMG Pharma LLC and Microbo srl Biotechnology Company as employment funders. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PP SG. Performed the experiments: DL MC AC GR. Analyzed the data: PP SG AC PV DL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PV SG AC. Wrote the paper: PP SG.