About the Authors

Raffaele Fabrini

Contributed equally to this work with: Raffaele Fabrini, Alessio Bocedi

Affiliation Department of Chemical Sciences and Technologies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Alessio Bocedi

Contributed equally to this work with: Raffaele Fabrini, Alessio Bocedi

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Valentina Pallottini

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

Lorena Canuti

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Michele De Canio

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Andrea Urbani

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, S. Lucia Research Institute IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Valeria Marzano

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy, S. Lucia Research Institute IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Tommaso Cornetta

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

Pasquale Stano

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

Anna Giovanetti

Affiliation Institute of Radiation Protection, ENEA-CR Casaccia, Rome, Italy

Lorenzo Stella

Affiliation Department of Chemical Sciences and Technologies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Antonella Canini

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Giorgio Federici

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Giorgio Ricci

riccig@uniroma2.it

Affiliation Department of Chemical Sciences and Technologies, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RF AB GR. Performed the experiments: RF AB VP LC MDC AU VM TC PS AG AC. Analyzed the data: LS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GF. Wrote the paper: GR.