About the Authors

Tatiana Armeni

Contributed equally to this work with: Tatiana Armeni, Luisa Ercolani

t.armeni@univpm.it

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Section of Biochemistry, Biology and Physics, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Luisa Ercolani

Contributed equally to this work with: Tatiana Armeni, Luisa Ercolani

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Section of Biochemistry, Biology and Physics, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Lorena Urbanelli

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Alessandro Magini

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Francesca Magherini

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

Armanda Pugnaloni

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Clinical Sciences, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Francesco Piva

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Section of Biochemistry, Biology and Physics, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Alessandra Modesti

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

Carla Emiliani

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Giovanni Principato

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Section of Biochemistry, Biology and Physics, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TA LE GP. Performed the experiments: LE A. Magini LU AP FM. Analyzed the data: TA LE FP A. Magini CE A. Modesti. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CE GP A. Modesti. Wrote the paper: TA LE LU.