About the Authors

Federica Viti

Affiliations Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council, Genoa, Italy, Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council, Segrate (Mi), Italy

Martina Landini

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council, Segrate (Mi), Italy

Alessandra Mezzelani

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council, Segrate (Mi), Italy

Loredana Petecchia

Affiliation Institute of Biophysics, National Research Council, Genoa, Italy

Luciano Milanesi

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council, Segrate (Mi), Italy

Silvia Scaglione

silvia.scaglione@ieiit.cnr.it

Affiliations Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering, National Research Council, Genoa, Italy, Advanced Biotechnology Center (CBA), Genoa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FV SS. Performed the experiments: ML AM SS LP. Analyzed the data: FV SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LM SS. Wrote the paper: FV ML AM LP LM SS.