About the Authors

Gianna Palmieri

Contributed equally to this work with: Gianna Palmieri, Paolo Bergamo

g.palmieri@ibp.cnr.it

Affiliation Institute of Protein Biochemistry, National Research Council (CNR-IBP), Napoli, Italy

Paolo Bergamo

Contributed equally to this work with: Gianna Palmieri, Paolo Bergamo

Affiliation Institute of Food Sciences, National Research Council (CNR-ISA), Avellino, Italy

Alberto Luini

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Napoli, Italy

Menotti Ruvo

Affiliation Institute of Biostructure and Bioimaging, National Research Council (CNR-IBB), Napoli, Italy

Marta Gogliettino

Affiliation Institute of Protein Biochemistry, National Research Council (CNR-IBP), Napoli, Italy

Emma Langella

Affiliation Institute of Biostructure and Bioimaging, National Research Council (CNR-IBB), Napoli, Italy

Michele Saviano

Affiliation Institute of Crystallography, National Council of Research of Italy (CNR-IC), Bari, Italy

Ramanath N. Hegde

Affiliation Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Napoli, Italy

Annamaria Sandomenico

Affiliation Institute of Biostructure and Bioimaging, National Research Council (CNR-IBB), Napoli, Italy

Mose Rossi

Affiliation Institute of Protein Biochemistry, National Research Council (CNR-IBP), Napoli, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GP PB MRu AL. Performed the experiments: GP PB MG AS EL RH. Analyzed the data: GP PB MRo. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MRo MS. Wrote the paper: GP PB MRu.