About the Authors

Romina Croci

Contributed equally to this work with: Romina Croci, Margherita Pezzullo

Affiliation Department of BioSciences, University of Milano, Milano, Italy

Margherita Pezzullo

Contributed equally to this work with: Romina Croci, Margherita Pezzullo

Affiliation Department of BioSciences, University of Milano, Milano, Italy

Delia Tarantino

Affiliation Department of BioSciences, University of Milano, Milano, Italy

Mario Milani

Affiliations Department of BioSciences, University of Milano, Milano, Italy, Istituto di Biofisica,CNR IBF, Milano, Italy

Shwu-Chen Tsay

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan

Radhakrishnan Sureshbabu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Frontier Research Center on Fundamental and Applied Sciences of Matters, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Yi-Jin Tsai

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Frontier Research Center on Fundamental and Applied Sciences of Matters, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Eloise Mastrangelo

Affiliations Department of BioSciences, University of Milano, Milano, Italy, Istituto di Biofisica,CNR IBF, Milano, Italy

Jacques Rohayem

Affiliations Riboxx GmbH, Pharmapark Radebeul, Radebeul, Germany, Institute of Virology, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

Martino Bolognesi

martino.bolognesi@unimi.it (MB); jrhwu@mx.nthu.edu.tw (JH)

Affiliation Department of BioSciences, University of Milano, Milano, Italy

Jih Ru Hwu

martino.bolognesi@unimi.it (MB); jrhwu@mx.nthu.edu.tw (JH)

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan, Department of Chemistry and Frontier Research Center on Fundamental and Applied Sciences of Matters, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Competing Interests

Co-author Dr J. Rohayem is an employee of the company Riboxx GmbH (Germany) and this function does not lead to conflicts of interest and does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM MP ST DT EM JR JH MB. Performed the experiments: RC MP DT RS JR YT. Analyzed the data: MM MP DT EM ST JH RC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH MB JR. Wrote the paper: RC MP DT MM ST EM MB.