About the Authors

Gianna Aurora Palumbo

‡ GAP and CS are joint first authors.

Affiliation Dept of Internal Medicine–DMISM, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Cecilia Scisciani

‡ GAP and CS are joint first authors.

Affiliation Dept of Internal Medicine–DMISM, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Natalia Pediconi

Affiliation Dept of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Leonardo Lupacchini

Affiliation Dept of Internal Medicine–DMISM, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Dulce Alfalate

Affiliation INSERM U1052, Cancer Research Center of Lyon (CRCL), Lyon, France

Francesca Guerrieri

Affiliation Center for Life NanoSciences (CLNS), IIT-Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Ludovica Calvo

Affiliation Dept of Internal Medicine–DMISM, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Debora Salerno

Affiliations Dept of Internal Medicine–DMISM, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, Center for Life NanoSciences (CLNS), IIT-Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Silvia Di Cocco

Affiliation Dept of Internal Medicine–DMISM, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Massimo Levrero

massimo.levrero@uniroma1.it (ML); laura.belloni@iit.it (LB)

Affiliations Dept of Internal Medicine–DMISM, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, INSERM U1052, Cancer Research Center of Lyon (CRCL), Lyon, France, Center for Life NanoSciences (CLNS), IIT-Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Laura Belloni

massimo.levrero@uniroma1.it (ML); laura.belloni@iit.it (LB)

Affiliations Dept of Internal Medicine–DMISM, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, Center for Life NanoSciences (CLNS), IIT-Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GAP NP ML DS. Performed the experiments: GAP CS DA LL FG LC SDC. Analyzed the data: GAP NP ML LB. Wrote the paper: ML LB.