About the Authors

Mario Ferri

Affiliations Surgical and Medical Department of the Clinical Sciences, Biomedical Technologies and Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology University of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy

Simone Rossi Del Monte

Affiliations Surgical and Medical Department of the Clinical Sciences, Biomedical Technologies and Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology University of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy

Gerardo Salerno

Affiliations Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology University of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy

Tommaso Bocchetti

Affiliations Surgical and Medical Department of the Clinical Sciences, Biomedical Technologies and Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology University of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy

Stefano Angeletti

Affiliations Surgical and Medical Department of the Clinical Sciences, Biomedical Technologies and Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology University of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy

Florence Malisan

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology and Signal Transduction, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Rome, Italy

Patrizia Cardelli

Affiliations Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology University of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy

Vincenzo Ziparo

Affiliations Surgical and Medical Department of the Clinical Sciences, Biomedical Technologies and Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology University of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy

Maria Rosaria Torrisi

Affiliations Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology University of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy

Vincenzo Visco

vincenzo.visco1@uniroma1.it

Affiliations Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology University of Rome “Sapienza”, Rome, Italy, Sant’Andrea Hospital, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MF SRDM GS TB SA FM PC MRT VZ VV. Performed the experiments: MF SRDM GS TB SA. Analyzed the data: FM PC MRT VZ VV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PC MRT VZ. Wrote the paper: MF FM MRT VV.