About the Authors

Natalia Gordya

Affiliation Laboratory of Insect Biopharmacology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Andrey Yakovlev

Affiliation Laboratory of Insect Biopharmacology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Anastasia Kruglikova

Affiliation Laboratory of Insect Biopharmacology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Dmitry Tulin

Affiliation Laboratory of Insect Biopharmacology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Evdokia Potolitsina

Affiliation Laboratory of Insect Biopharmacology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Tatyana Suborova

Affiliation Research Center of Kirov Military Medical Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia

Domenico Bordo

Affiliation IRCCS AOU San Martino IST - National Institute for Cancer Research, Genova, Italy

Camillo Rosano

Affiliation IRCCS AOU San Martino IST - National Institute for Cancer Research, Genova, Italy

Sergey Chernysh

sichernysh1951@gmail.com

Affiliation Laboratory of Insect Biopharmacology and Immunology, Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Competing Interests

SC and NG are inventors of Pat № RU№2447896 “Antimicrobial material”, patentee Allopharm company. Other co-authors have no competing interests to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SC. Data curation: AK. Formal analysis: AK DB NG DT CR SC. Funding acquisition: SC. Investigation: NG AY DT AK EP TS. Methodology: NG DT SC AY. Project administration: SC. Resources: TS NG. Software: DB AK. Supervision: SC. Validation: NG SC. Writing – original draft: SC. Writing – review & editing: CR.