About the Authors

Viviana Volta

Contributed equally to this work with: Viviana Volta, Elia Ranzato

Current address: New York University, School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Molecular Histology and Cell Growth Laboratory, San Raffaele Science Institute, Milano, Italy

Elia Ranzato

Contributed equally to this work with: Viviana Volta, Elia Ranzato

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy

Simona Martinotti

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy

Simone Gallo

Affiliation Molecular Histology and Cell Growth Laboratory, San Raffaele Science Institute, Milano, Italy

Maria Veronica Russo

Affiliation Molecular Histology and Cell Growth Laboratory, San Raffaele Science Institute, Milano, Italy

Luciano Mutti

Affiliation Department of General Medicine, Vercelli National Health Trust, Vercelli, Italy

Stefano Biffo

Affiliations Molecular Histology and Cell Growth Laboratory, San Raffaele Science Institute, Milano, Italy, Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy

Bruno Burlando

burlando@unipmn.it

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, University of Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VV ER SB BB. Performed the experiments: VV ER SM SG MVR. Analyzed the data: VV ER SM LM SB BB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SB BB. Wrote the paper: LM SB BB.