About the Authors

Roxana Cojocneanu Petric

cojocneanur@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Biology, Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Research Center for Functional Genomics, Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Cornelia Braicu

Affiliations Research Center for Functional Genomics, Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Department of Functional Genomics and Experimental Pathology, The Oncology Institute “Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuta”, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Cristian Bassi

Affiliation Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, Ferrara University, Ferrara, Italy

Laura Pop

Affiliation Research Center for Functional Genomics, Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Ionelia Taranu

Affiliation National Institute of Research and Development for Biology and Animal Nutrition, Balotesti, Romania

Nicolae Dragos

Affiliation Taxonomy and Ecology Department, Institute of Biological Research, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Dan Dumitrascu

Affiliation 2nd Department of Internal Medicine, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Massimo Negrini

Contributed equally to this work with: Massimo Negrini, Ioana Berindan-Neagoe

Affiliations Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, Ferrara University, Ferrara, Italy, Laboratory for Technologies of Advanced Therapies (LTTA), Ferrara University, Ferrara, Italy

Ioana Berindan-Neagoe

Contributed equally to this work with: Massimo Negrini, Ioana Berindan-Neagoe

Affiliations Research Center for Functional Genomics, Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Department of Experimental Therapeutics, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Functional Genomics and Experimental Pathology, The Oncology Institute “Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuta”, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Department of Immunology, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RCP C. Braicu IT MN IBN. Performed the experiments: C. Braicu. Analyzed the data: RCP C. Bassi LP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: C. Braicu IT. Wrote the paper: RCP IT. Critical revisions: ND DD MN IBN. Final approval: MN IBN.