About the Authors

Giuseppe Sancataldo

Affiliation Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Universita' di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Valeria Vetri

valeria.vetri@unipa.it

Affiliations Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Universita' di Palermo, Palermo, Italy, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-IBF u.o. Palermo, Italy

Vito Foderà

Affiliations Department of Drug Design and Pharmacology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sector of Biological and Soft Systems, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Gianluca Di Cara

Affiliation Centro di Oncobiologia Sperimentale, Palermo, Italy

Valeria Militello

Affiliations Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Universita' di Palermo, Palermo, Italy, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-IBF u.o. Palermo, Italy

Maurizio Leone

Affiliations Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Universita' di Palermo, Palermo, Italy, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche-IBF u.o. Palermo, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GS VV VF. Performed the experiments: GS VV VF. Analyzed the data: GS VV VF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GS VV VF VM ML. Wrote the paper: GS VV VF. Performed the mass spectroscopy experiments and interpreted the related results: GDC. Responsible for interpreting the results and agree on the final draft of the manuscript: GS VV VF VM ML.