About the Authors

Valeria Ciancarella

Contributed equally to this work with: Valeria Ciancarella, Luigi Lembo-Fazio

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin”, Sapienza-Università di Roma, Laboratory affiliated to Istituto Pasteur Italia–Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Roma, Italy

Luigi Lembo-Fazio

Contributed equally to this work with: Valeria Ciancarella, Luigi Lembo-Fazio

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin”, Sapienza-Università di Roma, Laboratory affiliated to Istituto Pasteur Italia–Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Roma, Italy

Ida Paciello

Roles Investigation, Validation

‡ IP and AKB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin”, Sapienza-Università di Roma, Laboratory affiliated to Istituto Pasteur Italia–Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Roma, Italy

Anna-Karin Bruno

Roles Investigation, Validation

‡ IP and AKB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin”, Sapienza-Università di Roma, Laboratory affiliated to Istituto Pasteur Italia–Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Roma, Italy

Sébastien Jaillon

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Humanitas Clinical Research Center, Rozzano (Milano), Italy, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Italy

Sara Berardi

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Matelica (MC), Italy

Marialuisa Barbagallo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Humanitas Clinical Research Center, Rozzano (Milano), Italy

Shiri Meron-Sudai

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Dani Cohen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation School of Public Health, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Antonio Molinaro

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Chemical Sciences Università di Napoli Federico II Complesso Universitario Monte Santangelo, Napoli, Italy

Giacomo Rossi

Roles Conceptualization, Validation

Affiliation School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Matelica (MC), Italy

Cecilia Garlanda

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliations Humanitas Clinical Research Center, Rozzano (Milano), Italy, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Italy

Maria Lina Bernardini

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

marialina.bernardini@uniroma1.it

Affiliation Department of Biology and Biotechnology “Charles Darwin”, Sapienza-Università di Roma, Laboratory affiliated to Istituto Pasteur Italia–Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Roma, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.