About the Authors

Silvia Volpe

Current address: Cellular and Molecular Oncology laboratory, IRCCS, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Pavia, Italy

Affiliation Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Elisabetta Cameroni

Affiliation Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Barbara Moepps

Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Ulm Medical Center, Ulm, Germany

Sylvia Thelen

Affiliation Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Tiziana Apuzzo

Current address: Cellular and Molecular Oncology laboratory, IRCCS, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Pavia, Italy

Affiliation Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Marcus Thelen

marcus.thelen@irb.usi.ch

Affiliation Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT SV. Performed the experiments: SV EC BM TA ST. Analyzed the data: SV MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SV EC BM TA ST. Wrote the paper: MT SV EC.