About the Authors

Marco De Santis Puzzonia

Contributed equally to this work with: Marco De Santis Puzzonia, Angela Maria Cozzolino

Affiliation Istituto Pasteur Italia-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Haematology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Angela Maria Cozzolino

Contributed equally to this work with: Marco De Santis Puzzonia, Angela Maria Cozzolino

Affiliations Istituto Pasteur Italia-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Haematology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, L. Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Germana Grassi

Affiliation L. Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Francesca Bisceglia

Affiliation Istituto Pasteur Italia-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Haematology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Raffaele Strippoli

Affiliation Istituto Pasteur Italia-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Haematology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Giulia Guarguaglini

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology and Pathology, CNR National Research Council, c/o Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Franca Citarella

Affiliation Istituto Pasteur Italia-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Haematology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Benedetto Sacchetti

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Marco Tripodi

Affiliations Istituto Pasteur Italia-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Haematology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, L. Spallanzani National Institute for Infectious Diseases, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Alessandra Marchetti

amicone@bce.uniroma1.it (LA); marchetti@bce.uniroma1.it (AM)

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Istituto Pasteur Italia-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Haematology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Laura Amicone

amicone@bce.uniroma1.it (LA); marchetti@bce.uniroma1.it (AM)

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Istituto Pasteur Italia-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Department of Cellular Biotechnologies and Haematology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MDSP AM LA. Data curation: MDSP AMC. Formal analysis: MDSP AMC. Funding acquisition: MT LA. Investigation: MDSP AMC G. Grassi FB RS. Methodology: G. Guarguaglini BS FB. Project administration: AM LA. Resources: G. Guarguaglini FB BS. Supervision: AM LA. Validation: AM LA. Visualization: MDSP AMC. Writing – original draft: FC AM LA. Writing – review & editing: MDSP AMC AM LA.