About the Authors

Hossein Ghanbarian

Contributed equally to this work with: Hossein Ghanbarian, Nicole Wagner

Affiliation Biotechnology Department, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Nicole Wagner

Contributed equally to this work with: Hossein Ghanbarian, Nicole Wagner

Affiliations Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice (IRCAN), University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS UMR7284/INSERM U1081, Faculty of Medicine, Nice, France, Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Inserm, iBV, 06100, Nice, France

Beatrice Polo

Affiliation Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Inserm, iBV, 06100, Nice, France

Delphine Baudouy

Affiliations Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice (IRCAN), University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS UMR7284/INSERM U1081, Faculty of Medicine, Nice, France, Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Inserm, iBV, 06100, Nice, France

Jafar Kiani

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Jean-François Michiels

Affiliations Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice (IRCAN), University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS UMR7284/INSERM U1081, Faculty of Medicine, Nice, France, Department of Pathology, CHU Nice, Nice, France

François Cuzin

Affiliation Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Inserm, iBV, 06100, Nice, France

Minoo Rassoulzadegan

minoo@unice.fr (MR); kwagner@unice.fr (KDW)

Affiliation Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Inserm, iBV, 06100, Nice, France

Kay-Dietrich Wagner

minoo@unice.fr (MR); kwagner@unice.fr (KDW)

Affiliations Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice (IRCAN), University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS UMR7284/INSERM U1081, Faculty of Medicine, Nice, France, Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, Inserm, iBV, 06100, Nice, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR FC JFM KDW NW. Performed the experiments: HG KDW NW DB JK BP. Analyzed the data: HG KDW NW DB JK. Wrote the paper: HG KDW NW FC.