About the Authors

Mara D'Onofrio

Contributed equally to this work with: Mara D'Onofrio, Francesca Paoletti

Affiliations Neurotrophic Factors and Neurodegenerative Diseases Unit, EBRI-European Brain Research Institute, Rome, Italy, Neurogenomics IIT Unit, EBRI-European Brain Research Institute, Rome, Italy

Francesca Paoletti

Contributed equally to this work with: Mara D'Onofrio, Francesca Paoletti

Affiliation Neurotrophic Factors and Neurodegenerative Diseases Unit, EBRI-European Brain Research Institute, Rome, Italy

Ivan Arisi

Affiliations Neurotrophic Factors and Neurodegenerative Diseases Unit, EBRI-European Brain Research Institute, Rome, Italy, Neurogenomics IIT Unit, EBRI-European Brain Research Institute, Rome, Italy

Rossella Brandi

Affiliations Neurotrophic Factors and Neurodegenerative Diseases Unit, EBRI-European Brain Research Institute, Rome, Italy, Neurogenomics IIT Unit, EBRI-European Brain Research Institute, Rome, Italy

Francesca Malerba

Affiliations Neurotrophic Factors and Neurodegenerative Diseases Unit, EBRI-European Brain Research Institute, Rome, Italy, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

Luisa Fasulo

Affiliation Neurotrophic Factors and Neurodegenerative Diseases Unit, EBRI-European Brain Research Institute, Rome, Italy

Antonino Cattaneo

antonino.cattaneo@sns.it

Affiliations Neurotrophic Factors and Neurodegenerative Diseases Unit, EBRI-European Brain Research Institute, Rome, Italy, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MD FP AC. Performed the experiments: MD FP IA RB FM LF. Analyzed the data: MD FP IA RB FM LF AC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FP RB FM LF. Wrote the paper: MD FP IA RB FM LF AC.