About the Authors

Daniela Giordano

Affiliation Institute of Protein Biochemistry, CNR, Naples, Italy

Ignacio Boron

Affiliations Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Departamento de Química Inorgánica, Analítica y Química Física/INQUIMAE-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón 2, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Stefania Abbruzzetti

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Parma, NEST Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, Parma, Italy

Wendy Van Leuven

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, PPES, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, Wilrijk, Belgium

Francesco P. Nicoletti

Affiliation Dipartimento di Chimica “Ugo Schiff”, Università di Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy

Flavio Forti

Affiliation Facultat de Farmacia, Departament de Fisicoquímica and Institut de Biomedicina, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Stefano Bruno

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Parma, Parma, Italy

C-H. Christina Cheng

Affiliation Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Luc Moens

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, PPES, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, Wilrijk, Belgium

Guido di Prisco

Affiliation Institute of Protein Biochemistry, CNR, Naples, Italy

Alejandro D. Nadra

Affiliations Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Departamento de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Darío Estrin

Affiliation Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Giulietta Smulevich

Affiliations Dipartimento di Chimica “Ugo Schiff”, Università di Firenze, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy, Consorzio Interuniversitario di Ricerca in Chimica dei Metalli nei Sistemi Biologici, Bari, Italy

Sylvia Dewilde

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, PPES, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, Wilrijk, Belgium

Cristiano Viappiani

cristiano.viappiani@fis.unipr.it (C. Viappiani); c.verde@ibp.cnr.it (C. Verde)

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Parma, NEST Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, Parma, Italy

Cinzia Verde

cristiano.viappiani@fis.unipr.it (C. Viappiani); c.verde@ibp.cnr.it (C. Verde)

Affiliation Institute of Protein Biochemistry, CNR, Naples, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DG SB AN GS SD C. Viappiani C. Verde. Performed the experiments: DG IB SA WVL FPN FF SB CHCC. Analyzed the data: IB AN DE GS SD C. Viappiani. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DG IB SA WVL FPN FF SB CHCC LM GdP ADN DE GS SD C. Viappiani C. Verde. Wrote the paper: DG IB LM GdP GS C. Viappiani C.Verde.