About the Authors

Katia Pane

Contributed equally to this work with: Katia Pane, Lorenzo Durante

Affiliation Department of Biology, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Lorenzo Durante

Contributed equally to this work with: Katia Pane, Lorenzo Durante

Affiliation Department of Biology, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Elio Pizzo

Affiliation Department of Biology, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Mario Varcamonti

Affiliation Department of Biology, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Anna Zanfardino

Affiliation Department of Biology, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Valeria Sgambati

Affiliation Department of Biology, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Antimo Di Maro

Affiliation Department of Environmental, Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies, Seconda Università di Napoli, Caserta, Italy

Andrea Carpentieri

Affiliation Department of Chemical Sciences, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Viviana Izzo

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Surgery, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Baronissi, Italy

Alberto Di Donato

Affiliation Department of Biology, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Valeria Cafaro

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Eugenio Notomista

notomist@unina.it

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EN EP KP VC. Performed the experiments: AZ KP LD VC VS. Analyzed the data: EN EP KP VC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AC ADM. Wrote the paper: ADD EN EP MV VC VI.