About the Authors

Chiara Zuccato

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences and Center for Stem Cell Research, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Manuela Marullo

Contributed equally to this work with: Manuela Marullo, Barbara Vitali, Alessia Tarditi

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences and Center for Stem Cell Research, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Barbara Vitali

Contributed equally to this work with: Manuela Marullo, Barbara Vitali, Alessia Tarditi

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences and Center for Stem Cell Research, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Alessia Tarditi

Contributed equally to this work with: Manuela Marullo, Barbara Vitali, Alessia Tarditi

Current address: Siena Biotech S.P.A., Siena, Italy

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences and Center for Stem Cell Research, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Caterina Mariotti

Affiliation Division of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Neurological Institute-IRCCS “Carlo Besta”, Milan, Italy

Marta Valenza

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences and Center for Stem Cell Research, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Nayana Lahiri

Affiliation Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, United Kingdom

Edward J. Wild

Affiliation Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, United Kingdom

Jenny Sassone

Affiliation IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milano, Italy

Andrea Ciammola

Affiliation IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milano, Italy

Anne Catherine Bachoud-Lèvi

Affiliation AP-HP, Centre National de référence maladie de Huntington, GHU Chenevier Mondor, Créteil, France

Sarah J. Tabrizi

Affiliation Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, United Kingdom

Stefano Di Donato

Affiliation Division of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Neurological Institute-IRCCS “Carlo Besta”, Milan, Italy

Elena Cattaneo

elena.cattaneo@unimi.it

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences and Center for Stem Cell Research, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CZ EC. Performed the experiments: CZ MM BV AT JS. Analyzed the data: CZ MM BV AT MV EJW JS AC EC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM NL EJW ACBL SJT SDD. Wrote the paper: CZ MM EC.