About the Authors

Merlin Nanayakkara

Contributed equally to this work with: Merlin Nanayakkara, Giuliana Lania, Renata Auricchio, Maria Vittoria Barone

Affiliation Department of Traslational Medicine (section of Pediatrics) and ELFID (European Laboratory for the Investigation of Food Induced Disease), University of Naples, Federico II, Naples, Italy

Giuliana Lania

Contributed equally to this work with: Merlin Nanayakkara, Giuliana Lania, Renata Auricchio, Maria Vittoria Barone

Affiliation Department of Traslational Medicine (section of Pediatrics) and ELFID (European Laboratory for the Investigation of Food Induced Disease), University of Naples, Federico II, Naples, Italy

Mariantonia Maglio

Affiliation Department of Traslational Medicine (section of Pediatrics) and ELFID (European Laboratory for the Investigation of Food Induced Disease), University of Naples, Federico II, Naples, Italy

Roberta Kosova

Affiliation Department of Traslational Medicine (section of Pediatrics) and ELFID (European Laboratory for the Investigation of Food Induced Disease), University of Naples, Federico II, Naples, Italy

Marco Sarno

Affiliation Department of Traslational Medicine (section of Pediatrics) and ELFID (European Laboratory for the Investigation of Food Induced Disease), University of Naples, Federico II, Naples, Italy

Alessandra Gaito

Affiliation Department of Traslational Medicine (section of Pediatrics) and ELFID (European Laboratory for the Investigation of Food Induced Disease), University of Naples, Federico II, Naples, Italy

Valentina Discepolo

Affiliations Department of Traslational Medicine (section of Pediatrics) and ELFID (European Laboratory for the Investigation of Food Induced Disease), University of Naples, Federico II, Naples, Italy, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Riccardo Troncone

Affiliation Department of Traslational Medicine (section of Pediatrics) and ELFID (European Laboratory for the Investigation of Food Induced Disease), University of Naples, Federico II, Naples, Italy

Salvatore Auricchio

Affiliation Department of Traslational Medicine (section of Pediatrics) and ELFID (European Laboratory for the Investigation of Food Induced Disease), University of Naples, Federico II, Naples, Italy

Renata Auricchio

Contributed equally to this work with: Merlin Nanayakkara, Giuliana Lania, Renata Auricchio, Maria Vittoria Barone

Affiliation Department of Traslational Medicine (section of Pediatrics) and ELFID (European Laboratory for the Investigation of Food Induced Disease), University of Naples, Federico II, Naples, Italy

Maria Vittoria Barone

Contributed equally to this work with: Merlin Nanayakkara, Giuliana Lania, Renata Auricchio, Maria Vittoria Barone

mv.barone@unina.it

Affiliation Department of Traslational Medicine (section of Pediatrics) and ELFID (European Laboratory for the Investigation of Food Induced Disease), University of Naples, Federico II, Naples, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MVB SA RA. Performed the experiments: MN GL MM RK MS AG VD. Analyzed the data: MVB SA RA MN GL MM RK MS AG VD. Wrote the paper: MVB SA RA. Selected the patients and provided biopsies: RT. Critically revised and approved the manuscript: MN GL MM RK MS AG VD RT SA RA MVB.