About the Authors

Juan-María Torres

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jmtorres@inia.csic.es (J-MT); legname@sissa.it (GL)

Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (CISA-INIA), CSIC: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Valdeolmos, Madrid, Spain

Alba Marín-Moreno

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (CISA-INIA), CSIC: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Valdeolmos, Madrid, Spain

Juan-Carlos Espinosa

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (CISA-INIA), CSIC: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Valdeolmos, Madrid, Spain

Sara Canoyra

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (CISA-INIA), CSIC: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Valdeolmos, Madrid, Spain, Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid UCM, Madrid, Spain

Anna Burato

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Prion Biology, Department of Neuroscience, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste, Italy

Arianna Ciullini

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Unit of Laboratory of Medicine – Laboratory of Clinical Pathology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

Chiara Maria Giulia De Luca

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Neurology 5 and Neuropathology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

Edoardo Bistaffa

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Division of Neurology 5 and Neuropathology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

Fabio Moda

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Unit of Laboratory of Medicine – Laboratory of Clinical Pathology, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Translational Medicine, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

Giuseppe Legname

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jmtorres@inia.csic.es (J-MT); legname@sissa.it (GL)

Affiliations Laboratory of Prion Biology, Department of Neuroscience, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Trieste, Italy, ELETTRA Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A, Basovizza, Trieste, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.