About the Authors

Dimitrios Iliopoulos

Current address: Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Research and Technology, Larissa, Greece

Konstantinos N. Malizos

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Research and Technology, Larissa, Greece, Department of Orthopaedics, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

Pagona Oikonomou

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Research and Technology, Larissa, Greece

Aspasia Tsezou

atsezou@med.uth.gr

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Research and Technology, Larissa, Greece, Laboratory of Cytogenetics & Molecular Genetics, Medical School, University of Thessaly, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece, University of Thessaly, Medical School, Department of Biology, Larissa, Greece

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DI AT. Performed the experiments: DI PO. Analyzed the data: DI PO AT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DI KNM AT. Wrote the paper: DI AT.