About the Authors

Charalampos Chrysovalantis Chytoudis-Peroudis

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Nikistratos Siskos

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Konstantinos Kalyviotis

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Current address: Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom.

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Ioannis Fysekis

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Petros Ypsilantis

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Constantinos Simopoulos

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

George Skavdis

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Maria E. Grigoriou

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mgrigor@mbg.duth.gr

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.