About the Authors

Giovanna Costanzo

Affiliation Istituto di Biologia e Patologia Molecolari, CNR, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, Rome, 00185, Italy

Samanta Pino

Affiliation Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Charles Darwin”, “Sapienza” Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, Rome, 00185, Italy

Anna Maria Timperio

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Biology, “La Tuscia” University, Viterbo, 01100, Italy

Judit E. Šponer

ernesto.dimauro@uniroma1.it (EDM); judit@ncbr.muni.cz (JES)

Affiliations Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Královopolská 135, CZ-61265, Brno, Czech Republic, CEITEC—Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, CZ−62500, Brno, Czech Republic

Jiří Šponer

Affiliations Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Královopolská 135, CZ-61265, Brno, Czech Republic, CEITEC—Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, CZ−62500, Brno, Czech Republic

Olga Nováková

Affiliation Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Královopolská 135, CZ-61265, Brno, Czech Republic

Ondrej Šedo

Affiliation CEITEC—Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, CZ−62500, Brno, Czech Republic

Zbyněk Zdráhal

Affiliation CEITEC—Central European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, CZ−62500, Brno, Czech Republic

Ernesto Di Mauro

ernesto.dimauro@uniroma1.it (EDM); judit@ncbr.muni.cz (JES)

Affiliation Istituto Pasteur Italia—Fondazione Cenci-Bolognetti, c/o Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Charles Darwin”, “Sapienza” Università di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro, 5, Rome, 00185, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: EDM JES. Funding acquisition: EDM JES JS ZZ. Investigation: GC SP ON OS AMT. Methodology: GC SP AMT JES JS ON OS ZZ EDM. Project administration: EDM JS ZZ AMT. Resources: JS ZZ. Supervision: EDM JES. Writing – review & editing: GC SP AMT JES JS ON OS ZZ EDM.