About the Authors

Mario G. Mirisola

Contributed equally to this work with: Mario G. Mirisola, Giusi Taormina

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Forensi (DiBiMeF) Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Giusi Taormina

Contributed equally to this work with: Mario G. Mirisola, Giusi Taormina

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Forensi (DiBiMeF) Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Paola Fabrizio

Affiliation Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire de la Cellule, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Université de Lyon, Lyon, France

Min Wei

Affiliation Longevity Institute and Dept. of Biological Sciences School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jia Hu

Affiliation Longevity Institute and Dept. of Biological Sciences School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Valter D. Longo

vlongo@usc.edu

Affiliation Longevity Institute and Dept. of Biological Sciences School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MGM VDL. Performed the experiments: MGM GT PF MW JH. Analyzed the data: MGM GT VDL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PF MW JH. Wrote the paper: MGM VDL.