About the Authors

Athanasia Stathopoulou

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Medical School, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

Vassilis Roukos

Current address: Department of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Medical School, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

Chariklia Petropoulou

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Medical School, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

Panagiotis Kotsantis

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Medical School, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

Nickolas Karantzelis

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Medical School, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

Hideo Nishitani

Affiliation Department of Biological Signaling, Graduate School of Life Science, University of Hyogo, Hyogo, Japan

Zoi Lygerou

Affiliation Department of General Biology, Medical School, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

Stavros Taraviras

taraviras@med.upatras.gr

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Medical School, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZL ST. Performed the experiments: AS VR CP PK NK. Analyzed the data: AS ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HN. Wrote the paper: AS ZL ST.