About the Authors

Silvia Moretti

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia Moretti, Silvia Bozza

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Silvia Bozza

Contributed equally to this work with: Silvia Moretti, Silvia Bozza

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Vasilis Oikonomou

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Giorgia Renga

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Andrea Casagrande

Affiliations Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, Italy

Rossana G. Iannitti

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Matteo Puccetti

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Cecilia Garlanda

Affiliation Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano, Milan, Italy

Soohyun Kim

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Suzhao Li

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Frank L. van de Veerdonk

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Charles A. Dinarello

Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Luigina Romani

luigina.romani@unipg.it

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FLvdV CAD LR. Performed the experiments: SB SM GR MP AC VO RGI. Analyzed the data: FLvdV CAD LR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CG SK SL. Wrote the paper: FLvdV CAD LR. Provided mice and gave conceptual advice: CG. Provided the recombinant IL-37 as well as analyzing data: SK SL.