About the Authors

Valentina Botti

Current address: Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy

Alessia Bianchi

Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy

Steven K. H. Foung

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Marcello Merola

marcello.merola@novartis.com

Affiliations Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy, Department of Structural and Functional Biology, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM VB AB. Performed the experiments: VB AB. Analyzed the data: VB AB MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SKHF AB. Wrote the paper: VB AB MM.