About the Authors

Giuseppe Mancuso

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany

Esther Barth

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany

Pietro Crivello

Current address: Unit of Molecular and Functional Immunogenetics (UMFI), Division of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Therapy, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milano, Italy

Affiliation National Neurological Institute Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy

Elena I. Rugarli

Elena.Rugarli@uni-koeln.de

Affiliations Institute of Zoology, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases (CECAD), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Center for Molecular Medicine (CMMC), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GM EIR. Performed the experiments: GM EB PC. Analyzed the data: GM EIR. Wrote the paper: GM EIR.