About the Authors

Monica Bregante

Contributed equally to this work with: Monica Bregante, Armando Carpaneto

Affiliation Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council of Italy (IBF), Genova, Italy

Armando Carpaneto

Contributed equally to this work with: Monica Bregante, Armando Carpaneto

Affiliation Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council of Italy (IBF), Genova, Italy

Veronica Piazza

Affiliation Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council of Italy (ISMAR), Genova, Italy

Francesca Sbrana

Affiliation Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council of Italy (IBF), Genova, Italy

Massimo Vassalli

Affiliation Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council of Italy (IBF), Genova, Italy

Marco Faimali

Affiliation Institute of Marine Sciences, National Research Council of Italy (ISMAR), Genova, Italy

Franco Gambale

gambale@ge.ibf.cnr.it

Affiliation Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council of Italy (IBF), Genova, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: FG AC MF. Data curation: AC MV FS. Formal analysis: FG AC. Funding acquisition: FG AC MF MV. Investigation: MB AC FS VP. Methodology: FG AC MB MV FS. Project administration: FG AC MB. Resources: FG AC MF VP MV FS. Software: AC MV FS. Supervision: FG AC. Validation: MB AC. Visualization: FG AC MB FS MV VP. Writing – original draft: FG AC. Writing – review & editing: FG AC.