About the Authors

Gaetano Di Bari

Contributed equally to this work with: Gaetano Di Bari, Eugenia Gentile

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, Aldo Moro University, Bari, Italy

Eugenia Gentile

Contributed equally to this work with: Gaetano Di Bari, Eugenia Gentile

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, Aldo Moro University, Bari, Italy

Tiziana Latronico

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, Aldo Moro University, Bari, Italy

Giuseppe Corriero

Affiliation Department of Biology, Aldo Moro University, Bari, Italy

Anna Fasano

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, Aldo Moro University, Bari, Italy

Carlotta Nonnis Marzano

Affiliation Department of Biology, Aldo Moro University, Bari, Italy

Grazia Maria Liuzzi

graziamaria.liuzzi@uniba.it

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and Biopharmaceutics, Aldo Moro University, Bari, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GML GC. Performed the experiments: GDB EG. Analyzed the data: EG GDB CNM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AF TL. Wrote the paper: EG GDB GML.