About the Authors

Marzia Dolcino

Contributed equally to this work with: Marzia Dolcino, Giuseppe Patuzzo

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Institute Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy

Giuseppe Patuzzo

Contributed equally to this work with: Marzia Dolcino, Giuseppe Patuzzo

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Alessandro Barbieri

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Elisa Tinazzi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Monica Rizzi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Ruggero Beri

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Giuseppe Argentino

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Andrea Ottria

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Claudio Lunardi

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Antonio Puccetti

antonio.puccetti@unige.it

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Immunology, Institute Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Genova, Genova, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no ncompeting interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CL AP. Performed the experiments: MD AB RB GA. Analyzed the data: ET GP AO MR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GP ET. Wrote the paper: AP CL GP.