About the Authors
- Christian Milani
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Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Milani, Arancha Hevia
Affiliation Laboratory of Probiogenomics, Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Italy
- Arancha Hevia
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Contributed equally to this work with: Christian Milani, Arancha Hevia
Affiliation Departamento de Microbiologia y Bioquimica de Productos Lacteos, IPLA – CSIC, Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain
- Elena Foroni
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Affiliation Laboratory of Probiogenomics, Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Italy
- Sabrina Duranti
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Affiliation Laboratory of Probiogenomics, Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Italy
- Francesca Turroni
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Affiliation Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre and Department of Microbiology, Bioscience Institute, National University of Ireland, Western Road, Cork, Ireland
- Gabriele Andrea Lugli
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Affiliation Laboratory of Probiogenomics, Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Italy
- Borja Sanchez
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Affiliation Departamento de Microbiologia y Bioquimica de Productos Lacteos, IPLA – CSIC, Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain
- Rebeca Martín
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Affiliation INRA, UMR 1319 MICALIS-Microbiologie de l’Alimentation au Service de la Santé humaine, Pôle Ecosystèmes: Interactions des bactéries commensales et probiotiques avec l’hôte, Domaine de Vilvert, Bât 440 R-2 78352, Jouy en Josas, France
- Miguel Gueimonde
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Affiliation Departamento de Microbiologia y Bioquimica de Productos Lacteos, IPLA – CSIC, Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain
- Douwe van Sinderen
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Affiliation Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre and Department of Microbiology, Bioscience Institute, National University of Ireland, Western Road, Cork, Ireland
- Abelardo Margolles
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* E-mail: amargolles@ipla.csic.es (AM); marco.ventura@unipr.it (MV)
Affiliation Departamento de Microbiologia y Bioquimica de Productos Lacteos, IPLA – CSIC, Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain
- Marco Ventura
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* E-mail: amargolles@ipla.csic.es (AM); marco.ventura@unipr.it (MV)
Affiliation Laboratory of Probiogenomics, Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, Italy
Competing Interests
GenProbio srl provided the financial support of the Laboratory of Probiogenomics for this study. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MV AM DV MG BS RM. Performed the experiments: CM AH EF SD FT GL. Analyzed the data: MV AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MV AM. Wrote the paper: MV AM DV.