About the Authors

Barbara Marengo

Contributed equally to this work with: Barbara Marengo, Chiara De Ciucis

Affiliation Giannina Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy

Chiara De Ciucis

Contributed equally to this work with: Barbara Marengo, Chiara De Ciucis

Affiliation General Pathology Section, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Roberta Ricciarelli

Affiliation General Pathology Section, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Mario Passalacqua

Affiliations Biochemistry Section, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Research, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Mariapaola Nitti

Affiliation General Pathology Section, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Jean-Marc Zingg

Current address: Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Umberto M. Marinari

Affiliation General Pathology Section, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Maria A. Pronzato

Affiliation General Pathology Section, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Cinzia Domenicotti

Cinzia.Domenicotti@unige.it

Affiliation General Pathology Section, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BM CDC CD. Performed the experiments: BM CDC RR MP. Analyzed the data: BM CDC RR MN JMZ UMM CD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MAP CD. Wrote the paper: CD.