About the Authors

Silvia Bolognin

Affiliation CNR-Institute for Biomedical Technologies, Metalloproteins Unit, Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Federica Pasqualetto

Affiliation CNR-Institute for Biomedical Technologies, Metalloproteins Unit, Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Carla Mucignat-Caretta

Affiliation Department of Human Anatomy and Physiology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Janez Scancar

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Radmila Milacic

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Pamela Zambenedetti

Affiliation Division of Pathology, General Hospital, Dolo (VE), Italy

Bruno Cozzi

zatta@bio.unipd.it (PZ); bruno.cozzi@unipd.it (BC)

Affiliation Department of Experimental Veterinary Science, University of Padova, Legnaro (PD), Italy

Paolo Zatta

zatta@bio.unipd.it (PZ); bruno.cozzi@unipd.it (BC)

Affiliation CNR-Institute for Biomedical Technologies, Metalloproteins Unit, Department of Biology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: P. Zatta. Performed the experiments: SB FP CMC JS RM. Analyzed the data: SB CMC BC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CMC JS RM P. Zambenedetti. Wrote the paper: SB CMC BC P. Zatta.