About the Authors

Elisabetta Cavalcanti

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Immunopathology, IRCCS “de Bellis,” Castellana Grotte (BA), Italy

Elisa Vadrucci

Affiliations Laboratory of Experimental Immunopathology, IRCCS “de Bellis,” Castellana Grotte (BA), Italy, Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology, Mario Negri South, Santa Maria Imbaro (CH), Italy

Francesca Romana Delvecchio

Affiliations Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology, Mario Negri South, Santa Maria Imbaro (CH), Italy, Laboratory of Translational Medicine, ARCHES, Castellana Grotte (BA), Italy

Francesco Addabbo

Affiliation Laboratory of Experimental Immunopathology, IRCCS “de Bellis,” Castellana Grotte (BA), Italy

Simona Bettini

Affiliation Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

Rachel Liou

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Vladia Monsurrò

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Diagnostic, University of Verona Medical School, Verona, Italy

Alex Yee-Chen Huang

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Theresa Torres Pizarro

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Angelo Santino

Contributed equally to this work with: Angelo Santino, Marcello Chieppa

Affiliation Institute of Science of Food Production, CNR, Lecce, Italy

Marcello Chieppa

Contributed equally to this work with: Angelo Santino, Marcello Chieppa

transmed@irccsdebellis.it

Affiliations Laboratory of Experimental Immunopathology, IRCCS “de Bellis,” Castellana Grotte (BA), Italy, Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology, Mario Negri South, Santa Maria Imbaro (CH), Italy, Laboratory of Translational Medicine, ARCHES, Castellana Grotte (BA), Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC AS AH TP. Performed the experiments: EC EV FRD FA SB RL VM. Analyzed the data: MC VM EC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MC AS. Wrote the paper: MC EC TP.