About the Authors

Paraskevi Gkeka

Contributed equally to this work with: Paraskevi Gkeka, Thomas Evangelidis

Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

Thomas Evangelidis

Contributed equally to this work with: Paraskevi Gkeka, Thomas Evangelidis

Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

Maria Pavlaki

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Vasiliki Lazani

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Research, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology-Foundation for Research and Technology (IMBB-BR/FORTH), Ioannina, Greece

Savvas Christoforidis

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Research, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology-Foundation for Research and Technology (IMBB-BR/FORTH), Ioannina, Greece, Department of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

Bogos Agianian

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Zoe Cournia

zcournia@bioacademy.gr

Affiliation Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZC TE PG MP VL SC BA. Performed the experiments: PG TE MP VL. Analyzed the data: PG TE MP VL SC BA ZC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TE SC BA. Wrote the paper: PG TE MP VL SC BA ZC. Interpreted the data: PG TE MP VL SC BA ZC.