About the Authors

Chiara Lucchetti

Affiliation Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Center for Biotechnology, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Isabella Caligiuri

Affiliations Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Center for Biotechnology, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Human Health Foundation, Terni and Spoleto (PG), Italy, Department of Human Pathology and Oncology, University of Siena, Siena (SI), Italy

Giuseppe Toffoli

Affiliation Division of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Molecular Biology and Translational Research, National Cancer Institute and Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Aviano (PN), Italy

Antonio Giordano

giordano@temple.edu(AG); rizzolio@temple.edu (FR)

Affiliations Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Center for Biotechnology, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Human Health Foundation, Terni and Spoleto (PG), Italy, Department of Human Pathology and Oncology, University of Siena, Siena (SI), Italy

Flavio Rizzolio

giordano@temple.edu(AG); rizzolio@temple.edu (FR)

Affiliations Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Center for Biotechnology, College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Division of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Molecular Biology and Translational Research, National Cancer Institute and Center for Molecular Biomedicine, Aviano (PN), Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CL FR AG. Performed the experiments: CL IC. Analyzed the data: CL FR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AG. Wrote the paper: CL FR GT.