About the Authors

Valentina Perri

Contributed equally to this work with: Valentina Perri, Marsha Pellegrino

Affiliation Type 1 Diabetes Centre, Infectivology and Clinical Trials Area, Children’s Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy

Marsha Pellegrino

Contributed equally to this work with: Valentina Perri, Marsha Pellegrino

Affiliation Type 1 Diabetes Centre, Infectivology and Clinical Trials Area, Children’s Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy

Francesca Ceccacci

Affiliation CNR Chemical Methodologies Institute-Section Mechanisms of reaction (CNR-IMC-SMR) c/o Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Anita Scipioni

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Stefania Petrini

Affiliation Confocal Microscopy Core Facility, Research Laboratories, Children’s Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy

Elena Gianchecchi

Current address: Vismederi Srl, Siena, Italy

Affiliation Type 1 Diabetes Centre, Infectivology and Clinical Trials Area, Children’s Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy

Anna Lo Russo

Affiliation Type 1 Diabetes Centre, Infectivology and Clinical Trials Area, Children’s Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy

Serena De Santis

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Giovanna Mancini

Affiliation CNR Chemical Methodologies Institute (CNR-IMC), Rome, Italy

Alessandra Fierabracci

alessandra.fierabracci@opbg.net

Affiliation Type 1 Diabetes Centre, Infectivology and Clinical Trials Area, Children’s Hospital Bambino Gesù, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AF GM. Data curation: VP FC MP AS SP EG. Formal analysis: VP MP EG SP. Funding acquisition: AF. Investigation: VP MP EG AL FC AS SP AL SD. Methodology: AF GM MP. Project administration: AF. Resources: AF FC AS SP. Software: VP MP AS FC SP. Supervision: AF GM. Validation: AF GM. Visualization: VP FC MP AS EG SP. Writing – original draft: AF GM VP MP FC AS. Writing – review & editing: AF GM MP.