About the Authors

Laura Poliseno

Contributed equally to this work with: Laura Poliseno, Letizia Pitto

Affiliations Laboratory of Gene and Molecular Therapy, Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Pisa, Italy, Cancer Genetics Program, Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center, Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Cancer Genetics Program, Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Letizia Pitto

Contributed equally to this work with: Laura Poliseno, Letizia Pitto

Affiliation Laboratory of Gene and Molecular Therapy, Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Pisa, Italy

Marcella Simili

Affiliation Laboratory of Gene and Molecular Therapy, Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Pisa, Italy

Laura Mariani

Affiliation Laboratory of Gene and Molecular Therapy, Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Pisa, Italy

Luisa Riccardi

Affiliations Cancer Genetics Program, Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center, Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Cancer Genetics Program, Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alessia Ciucci

Affiliation Laboratory of Gene and Molecular Therapy, Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Pisa, Italy

Milena Rizzo

Affiliation Laboratory of Gene and Molecular Therapy, Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Pisa, Italy

Monica Evangelista

Affiliation Laboratory of Gene and Molecular Therapy, Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Pisa, Italy

Alberto Mercatanti

Affiliation Laboratory of Gene and Molecular Therapy, Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Pisa, Italy

Pier Paolo Pandolfi

Affiliations Cancer Genetics Program, Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center, Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Cancer Genetics Program, Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Center, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Giuseppe Rainaldi

g.rainaldi@ifc.cnr.it

Affiliations Laboratory of Gene and Molecular Therapy, Institute of Clinical Physiology, CNR, Pisa, Italy, Istituto Toscano Tumori, Firenze, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GR LP LP. Performed the experiments: LP LR LP LM AC MR ME. Analyzed the data: PP LP LP MS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM. Wrote the paper: GR MS.