About the Authors

Tommaso Rondelli

Contributed equally to this work with: Tommaso Rondelli, Margherita Berardi

Affiliation Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Gene Transfer, Core Research Laboratory (CRL) - Istituto Toscano Tumori (ITT), Firenze, Italy

Margherita Berardi

Contributed equally to this work with: Tommaso Rondelli, Margherita Berardi

Affiliation Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Gene Transfer, Core Research Laboratory (CRL) - Istituto Toscano Tumori (ITT), Firenze, Italy

Benedetta Peruzzi

Affiliation Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Gene Transfer, Core Research Laboratory (CRL) - Istituto Toscano Tumori (ITT), Firenze, Italy

Luca Boni

Affiliation Clinical Trials Coordinating Center, CRL-ITT, Firenze, Italy

Roberto Caporale

Affiliation Flow Cytometry Unit, Careggi Hospital, Firenze, Italy

Piero Dolara

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy

Rosario Notaro

rosario.notaro@ittumori.it

Affiliation Laboratory of Cancer Genetics and Gene Transfer, Core Research Laboratory (CRL) - Istituto Toscano Tumori (ITT), Firenze, Italy

Lucio Luzzatto

Affiliation Istituto Toscano Tumori, Firenze, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Performed statistical analysis: LB. Conceived and designed the experiments: RN LL. Performed the experiments: TR MB BP RC. Analyzed the data: TR MB BP LB RC PD RN LL. Wrote the paper: TR MB RN LL.