About the Authors

Elisabetta Zulato

Contributed equally to this work with: Elisabetta Zulato, Francesca Favaretto

Affiliation Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Francesca Favaretto

Contributed equally to this work with: Elisabetta Zulato, Francesca Favaretto

Affiliation Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Caterina Veronese

Affiliation Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Stefano Campanaro

Affiliation Department of Biology, CRIBI (Centro Ricerca Interdipartimentale Biotecnologie Innovative), University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Jan D. Marshall

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United State of America

Sara Romano

Affiliation Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Anna Cabrelle

Affiliation Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Gayle B. Collin

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United State of America

Barbara Zavan

Affiliation Department of Histology, Microbiology and Biomedical Technologies, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Anna S. Belloni

Affiliation Department of Human Anatomy and Physiology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Enrica Rampazzo

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Surgical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Jürgen K. Naggert

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United State of America

Giovanni Abatangelo

Affiliation Department of Histology, Microbiology and Biomedical Technologies, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Nicola Sicolo

Affiliation Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Pietro Maffei

Affiliation Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Gabriella Milan

gabriella.milan@unipd.it

Affiliation Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Roberto Vettor

Affiliation Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EZ FF GM. Performed the experiments: EZ FF CV SR AC BZ ER. Analyzed the data: EZ FF SC JDM GBC NS PM RV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ASB GA. Wrote the paper: EZ FF GM JKN PM RV.