About the Authors

Elisa Ventura

Affiliation Laboratory of Recombinant Therapeutic Proteins, CBA – Advanced Biotechnology Centre, Genoa, Italy

Francesca Sassi

Affiliation Laboratory of Recombinant Therapeutic Proteins, CBA – Advanced Biotechnology Centre, Genoa, Italy

Arianna Parodi

Affiliation Laboratory of Recombinant Therapeutic Proteins, CBA – Advanced Biotechnology Centre, Genoa, Italy

Enrica Balza

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Biology, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy

Laura Borsi

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Biology, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy

Patrizia Castellani

Affiliation Laboratory of Cell Biology, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy

Barbara Carnemolla

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genoa, Italy

Luciano Zardi

zardi43@yahoo.it

Affiliation Laboratory of Recombinant Therapeutic Proteins, CBA – Advanced Biotechnology Centre, Genoa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EV LZ. Performed the experiments: EV AP. Analyzed the data: EV FS EB LB PC BC LZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FS EB LB PC BC. Wrote the paper: LZ.