About the Authors

Lavinia Nardinocchi

Affiliation Molecular Oncogenesis Laboratory, Department of Experimental Oncology, National Cancer Institute “Regina Elena”, Rome, Italy

Valentina Pantisano

Affiliations Molecular Oncogenesis Laboratory, Department of Experimental Oncology, National Cancer Institute “Regina Elena”, Rome, Italy, Chair of Endocrinology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy

Rosa Puca

Affiliations Molecular Oncogenesis Laboratory, Department of Experimental Oncology, National Cancer Institute “Regina Elena”, Rome, Italy, Department of Oncology and Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine, University “G. d'Annunzio”, Chieti, Italy

Manuela Porru

Affiliation Experimental Chemotherapy, National Cancer Institute “Regina Elena”, Rome, Italy

Aurora Aiello

Affiliations Molecular Oncogenesis Laboratory, Department of Experimental Oncology, National Cancer Institute “Regina Elena”, Rome, Italy, National Research Council, Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine, Rome, Italy

Annalisa Grasselli

Affiliations Molecular Oncogenesis Laboratory, Department of Experimental Oncology, National Cancer Institute “Regina Elena”, Rome, Italy, National Research Council, Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine, Rome, Italy

Carlo Leonetti

Affiliation Experimental Chemotherapy, National Cancer Institute “Regina Elena”, Rome, Italy

Michal Safran

Affiliation Cancer Research Center, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer and Sachler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Gideon Rechavi

Affiliation Cancer Research Center, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer and Sachler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

David Givol

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Antonella Farsetti

Affiliations Molecular Oncogenesis Laboratory, Department of Experimental Oncology, National Cancer Institute “Regina Elena”, Rome, Italy, National Research Council, Institute of Neurobiology and Molecular Medicine, Rome, Italy

Gabriella D'Orazi

gdorazi@unich.it

Affiliations Molecular Oncogenesis Laboratory, Department of Experimental Oncology, National Cancer Institute “Regina Elena”, Rome, Italy, Department of Oncology and Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine, University “G. d'Annunzio”, Chieti, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GD LN. Performed the experiments: LN VP RP AA MP AG. Analyzed the data: GD LN AF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CL MS GR AF DG. Wrote the paper: GD.