About the Authors

Livio Favaro

livio.favaro@unito.it

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Laura Ozella

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Daniela Pessani

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Competing Interests

Livio Favaro is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Torino and was supported for the writing of this manuscript by a Fiat Group Automobiles S.p.A. (Verrone plant) research grant. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LF DP LO. Performed the experiments: LF LO. Analyzed the data: LF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LF DP. Wrote the paper: LF. Commented and improved the manuscript: DP LO.