About the Authors

Arianna Tocchetti

Contributed equally to this work with: Arianna Tocchetti, Roberta Bordoni

Affiliations NAICONS Srl, Milano, Italy, KtedoGen Srl, Milano, Italy

Roberta Bordoni

Contributed equally to this work with: Arianna Tocchetti, Roberta Bordoni

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council, Segrate, Italy

Giuseppe Gallo

Affiliation Dep. STEBICEF, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Luca Petiti

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council, Segrate, Italy

Giorgio Corti

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council, Segrate, Italy

Silke Alt

Current address: Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, United Kingdom.

Affiliation NAICONS Srl, Milano, Italy

Joao C. S. Cruz

Affiliation KtedoGen Srl, Milano, Italy

Anna Maria Salzano

Affiliation ISPAAM, National Research Council, Napoli, Italy

Andrea Scaloni

Affiliation ISPAAM, National Research Council, Napoli, Italy

Anna Maria Puglia

Affiliation Dep. STEBICEF, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Gianluca De Bellis

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council, Segrate, Italy

Clelia Peano

clelia.peano@itb.cnr.it (CP); msosio@naicons.com (MS)

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council, Segrate, Italy

Stefano Donadio

Affiliations NAICONS Srl, Milano, Italy, KtedoGen Srl, Milano, Italy

Margherita Sosio

clelia.peano@itb.cnr.it (CP); msosio@naicons.com (MS)

Affiliations NAICONS Srl, Milano, Italy, KtedoGen Srl, Milano, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GG GDB CP SD MS. Performed the experiments: AT RB JCSC GC SA LP CP GG AMS MS. Analyzed the data: AT RB JCSC GC SA LP CP SA GG AS AMS AMP GDB CP SD MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SD MS AS AMP GDB. Wrote the paper: SD MS.