About the Authors

Francesca Cavallo

Affiliations Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Section of Anatomy, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Grazia Graziani

Affiliation Department of System Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Cristina Antinozzi

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Section of Anatomy, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Darren R. Feldman

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Jane Houldsworth

Affiliation Cell Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

George J. Bosl

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Raju S. K. Chaganti

Affiliation Cell Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Mary Ellen Moynahan

Affiliation Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Maria Jasin

Affiliation Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Marco Barchi

marco.barchi@uniroma2.it

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, Section of Anatomy, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FC MJ MB. Performed the experiments: FC GG CA MB. Analyzed the data: FC GG DRF JH GJB RSKC MEM MJ MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GG JH RSKC MEM MJ MB. Wrote the paper: FC MB. Drafting the article or revisiting it critically: GG DRF JH GJB RSKC MEM MJ.