About the Authors

Francesca Spadaro

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca Spadaro, Serena Cecchetti

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Serena Cecchetti

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca Spadaro, Serena Cecchetti

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Cristina Purificato

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Michela Sabbatucci

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Franca Podo

Affiliations Department of Hematology, Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy, Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Carlo Ramoni

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Sandra Gessani

Joint principal investigators.

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Laura Fantuzzi

laura.fantuzzi@iss.it

Joint principal investigators.

Affiliation Department of Hematology, Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FS SC LF. Performed the experiments: FS SC CP MS. Analyzed the data: FS SC LF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FP CR. Wrote the paper: LF FS SC SG FP CR.