About the Authors

Annarita Falanga

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy & CIRPEB & DFM Scarl, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

Rossella Tarallo

Affiliation Molecular Design Institute and Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Thomas Carberry

Affiliation Molecular Design Institute and Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Massimiliano Galdiero

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

Marcus Weck

Affiliation Molecular Design Institute and Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Stefania Galdiero

stefania.galdiero@unina.it

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy & CIRPEB & DFM Scarl, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG MW MG. Performed the experiments: AF RT TC. Analyzed the data: SG. Wrote the paper: SG MW MG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG.