About the Authors

Francesco Merolla

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesco Merolla, Chiara Luise

Affiliations Istituto di Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale, CNR, Naples, Italy, Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare, Università Federico II, Naples, Italy

Chiara Luise

Contributed equally to this work with: Francesco Merolla, Chiara Luise

Affiliations Istituto di Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale, CNR, Naples, Italy, Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare, Università Federico II, Naples, Italy

Mark T. Muller

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Roberto Pacelli

Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze Biomorfologiche e Funzionali, Università Federico II, Naples, Italy

Alfredo Fusco

Affiliations Istituto di Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale, CNR, Naples, Italy, Dipartimento di Biologia e Patologia Cellulare e Molecolare, Università Federico II, Naples, Italy

Angela Celetti

celetti@unina.it

Affiliation Istituto di Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale, CNR, Naples, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FM CL. Performed the experiments: FM CL RP. Analyzed the data: FM CL MTM AC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FM CL MTM AF AC. Wrote the paper: AC.