About the Authors

Aris Rousakis

Contributed equally to this work with: Aris Rousakis, Anna Vlanti

Affiliations Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Center of Basic Research II, Athens, Greece, Faculty of Medicine, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Anna Vlanti

Contributed equally to this work with: Aris Rousakis, Anna Vlanti

Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Center of Basic Research II, Athens, Greece

Fivos Borbolis

Affiliations Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Center of Basic Research II, Athens, Greece, Faculty of Biology, School of Science, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Fani Roumelioti

Current address: Institute of Immunology, BSRC “Alexander Fleming”, Athens, Greece

Affiliations Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Center of Basic Research II, Athens, Greece, Faculty of Biology, School of Science, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Marianna Kapetanou

Current address: Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece

Affiliations Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Center of Basic Research II, Athens, Greece, Department of Biology, School of Science and Engineering, University of Crete, Heraklio, Crete, Greece

Popi Syntichaki

synticha@bioacademy.gr

Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Center of Basic Research II, Athens, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PS AR AV FB. Performed the experiments: AR AV FB FR MK PS. Analyzed the data: PS AR AV FB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AR AV FB FR MK. Wrote the paper: PS.