About the Authors

Federico De Marco

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology. The Regina Elena Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy

Elona Bucaj

Affiliations Laboratory of Virology. The Regina Elena Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy, Department of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Cesira Foppoli

Affiliation CNR Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, Rome, Italy

Ada Fiorini

Affiliation Department of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Carla Blarzino

Affiliation Laboratory of Virology. The Regina Elena Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy

Kozeta Filipi

Affiliation Cancer Unit - Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania

Alessandra Giorgi

Affiliation Department of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Maria Eugenia Schininà

Affiliation Department of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Fabio Di Domenico

Affiliation Department of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Raffaella Coccia

Affiliation Department of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

D. Allan Butterfield

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Center of Membrane Sciences, and Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Marzia Perluigi

marzia.perluigi@uniroma1.it

Affiliation Department of Biochemical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FDM MP. Performed the experiments: FDD EB AF. Analyzed the data: MES AG CF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CB KF DAB. Wrote the paper: MP RC.