About the Authors

Marita Bosticardo

Contributed equally to this work with: Marita Bosticardo, Silvia Musio

Affiliation TIGET, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Silvia Musio

Contributed equally to this work with: Marita Bosticardo, Silvia Musio

Affiliation Foundation IRCCS Neurological Institute “C.Besta”, Neuroimmunology and Neuromuscular Disorders Unit, Milan, Italy

Elena Fontana

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Pathology Unit, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Stefano Angiari

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Diagnosis, Section of General Pathology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Elena Draghici

Affiliation TIGET, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Gabriela Constantin

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Diagnosis, Section of General Pathology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Pietro L. Poliani

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Pathology Unit, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Rosetta Pedotti

villa.anna@hsr.it (AV); rpedotti@istituto-besta.it (RP)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Foundation IRCCS Neurological Institute “C.Besta”, Neuroimmunology and Neuromuscular Disorders Unit, Milan, Italy

Anna Villa

villa.anna@hsr.it (AV); rpedotti@istituto-besta.it (RP)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations TIGET, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy, Milan Unit, Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB SM GC PLP AV RP. Performed the experiments: MB SM EF SA ED. Analyzed the data: MB SM EF SA GC PLP AV RP. Wrote the paper: MB SM GC PLP AV RP. Supervised the work: AV RP.