About the Authors

Matteo Nadai

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Giorgio Palù

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Manlio Palumbo

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Sara N. Richter

sara.richter@unipd.it

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Competing Interests

CL was a gift of Leo Pharmaceutical Products (Ballerup, Denmark). There are no further patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SNR. Performed the experiments: MN. Analyzed the data: MN SNR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GP MP. Wrote the paper: SNR.