About the Authors

Anna Iervolino

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Iervolino, Francesco Trepiccione

Affiliation Biogem, Istituto di Ricerche Genetiche Gaetano Salvatore, Ariano Irpino, Italy

Francesco Trepiccione

Contributed equally to this work with: Anna Iervolino, Francesco Trepiccione

Francesco.trepiccione@ana.au.dk

Affiliation Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Respiratory Science, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Federica Petrillo

Affiliations Biogem, Istituto di Ricerche Genetiche Gaetano Salvatore, Ariano Irpino, Italy, Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Respiratory Science, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Manuela Spagnuolo

Affiliations Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Respiratory Science, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy, Institute of Genetics and Biophysics A. Buzzati Traverso, CNR Naples, Italy

Marzia Scarfò

Affiliation Biogem, Istituto di Ricerche Genetiche Gaetano Salvatore, Ariano Irpino, Italy

Daniela Frezzetti

Affiliation Biogem, Istituto di Ricerche Genetiche Gaetano Salvatore, Ariano Irpino, Italy

Gabriella De Vita

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

Mario De Felice

Affiliations Biogem, Istituto di Ricerche Genetiche Gaetano Salvatore, Ariano Irpino, Italy, Department of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

Giovambattista Capasso

Affiliation Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Respiratory Science, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FT AI GC MD M. Scarfo. Performed the experiments: AI FP FT DF. Analyzed the data: FT AI GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MD GD M. Spagnuolo. Wrote the paper: FT AI GC.