About the Authors

Santina Bruzzone

Contributed equally to this work with: Santina Bruzzone, Mirko Magnone

santina.bruzzone@unige.it

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine (DIMES), Section of Biochemistry, and CEBR, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Mirko Magnone

Contributed equally to this work with: Santina Bruzzone, Mirko Magnone

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine (DIMES), Section of Biochemistry, and CEBR, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Elena Mannino

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine (DIMES), Section of Biochemistry, and CEBR, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Giovanna Sociali

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine (DIMES), Section of Biochemistry, and CEBR, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Laura Sturla

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine (DIMES), Section of Biochemistry, and CEBR, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Chiara Fresia

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine (DIMES), Section of Biochemistry, and CEBR, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Valeria Booz

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine (DIMES), Section of Biochemistry, and CEBR, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Laura Emionite

Affiliation Animal facility, IRCCS AOU San Martino - IST Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genova, Italy

Antonio De Flora

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine (DIMES), Section of Biochemistry, and CEBR, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Elena Zocchi

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine (DIMES), Section of Biochemistry, and CEBR, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB MM ADF EZ. Performed the experiments: SB EM MM GS LS CF VB LE. Analyzed the data: SB EM EZ. Wrote the paper: SB ADF EZ.