About the Authors

Chiara Ciaccio

Contributed equally to this work with: Chiara Ciaccio, Francisco Ocaña-Calahorro

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy, Interuniversity Consortium for the Research on the Chemistry of Metals in Biological Systems, Bari, Italy

Francisco Ocaña-Calahorro

Contributed equally to this work with: Chiara Ciaccio, Francisco Ocaña-Calahorro

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Córdoba, Cordoba, Spain

Enrica Droghetti

Affiliation Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”, University of Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy

Grazia R. Tundo

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy, Interuniversity Consortium for the Research on the Chemistry of Metals in Biological Systems, Bari, Italy

Emanuel Sanz-Luque

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Córdoba, Cordoba, Spain

Fabio Polticelli

Affiliations Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University, Roma, Italy, National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Roma Tre University Section, Roma, Italy

Paolo Visca

Affiliation Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University, Roma, Italy

Giulietta Smulevich

Affiliation Department of Chemistry “Ugo Schiff”, University of Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy

Paolo Ascenzi

Affiliation Interdepartmental Laboratory of Electron Microscopy, Roma Tre University, Roma, Italy

Massimo Coletta

coletta@seneca.uniroma2.it

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences and Translational Medicine, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy, Interuniversity Consortium for the Research on the Chemistry of Metals in Biological Systems, Bari, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FP PV GS PA MC. Performed the experiments: CC FO-C ED GT ES-L. Analyzed the data: CC ED GS MC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GS PA MC. Wrote the paper: CC FO-C ED FP PV GS PA MC.