About the Authors

Marina Capuano

Contributed equally to this work with: Marina Capuano, Carmen Maria Garcia-Herrero

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Medical Biotechnology, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy, Centro di Ingegneria Genetica (CEINGE) Advanced Biotechnology, s. c. a r. l., Naples, Italy

Carmen Maria Garcia-Herrero

Contributed equally to this work with: Marina Capuano, Carmen Maria Garcia-Herrero

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology III, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Barcelona, Spain

Nadia Tinto

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Medical Biotechnology, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy, Centro di Ingegneria Genetica (CEINGE) Advanced Biotechnology, s. c. a r. l., Naples, Italy

Carla Carluccio

Affiliations Centro di Ingegneria Genetica (CEINGE) Advanced Biotechnology, s. c. a r. l., Naples, Italy, Department of Biological Science, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

Valentina Capobianco

Affiliation Fondazione SDN-IRCSS (Istituto di Diagnostica Nucleare-Istituto di Ricerca e Cura a Carattere Scientifico), Naples, Italy

Iolanda Coto

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Medical Biotechnology, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy, Centro di Ingegneria Genetica (CEINGE) Advanced Biotechnology, s. c. a r. l., Naples, Italy

Arturo Cola

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Medical Biotechnology, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy, Centro di Ingegneria Genetica (CEINGE) Advanced Biotechnology, s. c. a r. l., Naples, Italy

Dario Iafusco

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Adriana Franzese

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

Adriana Zagari

Affiliations Centro di Ingegneria Genetica (CEINGE) Advanced Biotechnology, s. c. a r. l., Naples, Italy, Department of Biological Science, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

Maria Angeles Navas

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology III, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Barcelona, Spain

Lucia Sacchetti

sacchett@unina.it

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Medical Biotechnology, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy, Centro di Ingegneria Genetica (CEINGE) Advanced Biotechnology, s. c. a r. l., Naples, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LS. Performed the experiments: MC CMGH. Analyzed the data: LS MC CMGH NT MAN AZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DI AF CC IC VC AC. Wrote the paper: LS MC NT AZ MAN.