About the Authors

Maria Teresa Vento

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Teresa Vento, Valeria Zazzu

Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Biophysics “Adriano Buzzati-Traverso,” Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Naples, Italy

Valeria Zazzu

Contributed equally to this work with: Maria Teresa Vento, Valeria Zazzu

Current address: Center for Cardiovascular Research (CCR), Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Biophysics “Adriano Buzzati-Traverso,” Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Naples, Italy

Alessia Loffreda

Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Biophysics “Adriano Buzzati-Traverso,” Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Naples, Italy

Justin R. Cross

Current address: Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Affiliation Signal Transduction Laboratory, Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, London, United Kingdom

Julian Downward

Affiliation Signal Transduction Laboratory, Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, London, United Kingdom

Maria Patrizia Stoppelli

Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Biophysics “Adriano Buzzati-Traverso,” Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Naples, Italy

Ingram Iaccarino

ingram@igb.cnr.it

Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Biophysics “Adriano Buzzati-Traverso,” Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Naples, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: II. Performed the experiments: VZ MTV AL JRC II. Analyzed the data: JRC II. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JD. Wrote the paper: II MPS.