About the Authors

Andrea Baiocchini

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani, IRCCS, via Portuense 292, 00149 Rome, Italy

Claudia Montaldo

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani, IRCCS, via Portuense 292, 00149 Rome, Italy

Alice Conigliaro

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Haematology, Sapienza University of Rome and Istituto Pasteur - Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Via Regina Elena 324, 00161 Rome, Italy

Alessio Grimaldi

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani, IRCCS, via Portuense 292, 00149 Rome, Italy

Virginia Correani

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy

Francesco Mura

Affiliation Dipartimento di Chimica, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy

Fabiola Ciccosanti

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani, IRCCS, via Portuense 292, 00149 Rome, Italy

Nicolina Rotiroti

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani, IRCCS, via Portuense 292, 00149 Rome, Italy

Alessia Brenna

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani, IRCCS, via Portuense 292, 00149 Rome, Italy

Marzia Montalbano

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani, IRCCS, via Portuense 292, 00149 Rome, Italy

Gianpiero D’Offizi

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani, IRCCS, via Portuense 292, 00149 Rome, Italy

Maria Rosaria Capobianchi

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani, IRCCS, via Portuense 292, 00149 Rome, Italy

Riccardo Alessandro

Affiliations Dipartimento di Biopatologia e Biotecnologie Mediche, University of Palermo, Via Divisi 83-90133, Palermo, Italy, Institute of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology (IBIM), National Research Council of Italy, Palermo, Italy

Mauro Piacentini

Affiliations National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani, IRCCS, via Portuense 292, 00149 Rome, Italy, Department of Biology, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Rome, Italy

Maria Eugenia Schininà

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy

Bruno Maras

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy

Franca Del Nonno

Affiliation National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani, IRCCS, via Portuense 292, 00149 Rome, Italy

Marco Tripodi

carmine.mancone@uniroma1.it (C. Mancone); tripodi@bce.uniroma1.it (MT)

Affiliations National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani, IRCCS, via Portuense 292, 00149 Rome, Italy, Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Haematology, Sapienza University of Rome and Istituto Pasteur - Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Via Regina Elena 324, 00161 Rome, Italy

Carmine Mancone

carmine.mancone@uniroma1.it (C. Mancone); tripodi@bce.uniroma1.it (MT)

Affiliations National Institute for Infectious Diseases L. Spallanzani, IRCCS, via Portuense 292, 00149 Rome, Italy, Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Haematology, Sapienza University of Rome and Istituto Pasteur - Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Via Regina Elena 324, 00161 Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: C. Mancone A. Baiocchini. Performed the experiments: C. Montaldo C. Mancone A. Baiocchini AC AG VC FM NR A. Brenna MM GD MRC FC. Analyzed the data: C. Mancone A. Baiocchini C. Montaldo FC MT FDN MES BM AC RA MP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: C. Mancone MT. Wrote the paper: C. Mancone MT.