About the Authors

Luca Gambini

Contributed equally to this work with: Luca Gambini, Ilaria Russo

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Luca Rizzi

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Alessandro Pedretti

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Orazio Taglialatela-Scafati

Affiliation Department of Chemistry of Natural Substances, Faculty of Pharmacy, Università di Napoli "Federico II", Naples, Italy

Mario Carucci

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Andrea Pancotti

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Corinna Galli

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Martin Read

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Emanuele Giurisato

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Sergio Romeo

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Ilaria Russo

Contributed equally to this work with: Luca Gambini, Ilaria Russo

ilaria.russo@manchester.ac.uk

Affiliations Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Perugia, Perugia, Italy, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IR SR. Performed the experiments: IR LG LR AnP OT AlP CG MC. Analyzed the data: LG IR SR AlP OT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AlP OT SR EG MR IR. Wrote the paper: IR SR AlP OT MR. Wrote the manuscript with the help and the editorial revision of MR: IR.