About the Authors

Serena Smeazzetto

Affiliation Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

Andrea Saponaro

Affiliation Department of Biology and CNR IBF-Mi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Howard S. Young

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Maria Rosa Moncelli

Affiliation Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

Gerhard Thiel

gerhardthiel@me.com

Affiliation Plant Membrane Biophysics, TU-Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS GT. Performed the experiments: SS. Analyzed the data: SS GT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HY MRM GT. Wrote the paper: SS GT. Contributed to expression and purification proteins: SS AS HY.