About the Authors

Viviana Cafiso

Affiliation Unit of Microbiology, Department of Bio-Medical Sciences University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Taschia Bertuccio

Affiliation Unit of Microbiology, Department of Bio-Medical Sciences University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Daniela Spina

Affiliation Unit of Microbiology, Department of Bio-Medical Sciences University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Simona Purrello

Affiliation Unit of Microbiology, Department of Bio-Medical Sciences University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Floriana Campanile

Affiliation Unit of Microbiology, Department of Bio-Medical Sciences University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Cinzia Di Pietro

Affiliation Unit of Genome and Molecular Complex Systems BioMedicine G Sichel, Department Gian Filippo Ingrassia, Catania, Italy

Michele Purrello

Affiliation Unit of Genome and Molecular Complex Systems BioMedicine G Sichel, Department Gian Filippo Ingrassia, Catania, Italy

Stefania Stefani

stefanis@unict.it

Affiliation Unit of Microbiology, Department of Bio-Medical Sciences University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VC TB SS. Performed the experiments: VC TB DS SP. Analyzed the data: VC TB DS SP SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VC SS. Wrote the paper: VC TB DS SP SS. For critical revision of the manuscript: FC CDP MP.