About the Authors

Cristina Cattò

Affiliation Department of Food Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Silvia Dell’Orto

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Federica Villa

Affiliations Department of Food Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy, Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States of America

Stefania Villa

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Arianna Gelain

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Alberto Vitali

Affiliation Institute of Chemistry of Molecular Recognition-UOS Rome, CNR, Roma, Italy

Valeria Marzano

Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry and Clinical Biochemistry, Catholic University of Rome, Roma, Italy

Sara Baroni

Current address: Start Up Unit, Department of Experimental Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano, Italy

Affiliation Department of Food Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Fabio Forlani

fabio.forlani@unimi.it

Affiliation Department of Food Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Francesca Cappitelli

Affiliation Department of Food Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FF FV AG FC. Performed the experiments: CC SDO AV VM SB. Analyzed the data: CC SDO FV SV AG AV VM FF FC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FC SV FF. Wrote the paper: CC SDO SV FV FF. Designed the experiments: CC SV SB.