About the Authors

Simona Mariani

Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, Dulbecco Telethon Institute (DTI), Modena, Italy

Daniele Dell'Orco

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences and Reproduction Sect. of Biological Chemistry and Center for BioMedical Computing, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

Angelo Felline

Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, Dulbecco Telethon Institute (DTI), Modena, Italy

Francesco Raimondi

Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, Dulbecco Telethon Institute (DTI), Modena, Italy

Francesca Fanelli

fanelli@unimo.it

Affiliations Department of Life Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, Dulbecco Telethon Institute (DTI), Modena, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM FF. Performed the experiments: SM. Analyzed the data: SM FF. Wrote the paper: FF. Contributed to network simulation setup and analysis: DD. Contributed to Protein Structure Network analysis: AF. Contributed to Molecular Dynamics simulation setup and analysis: FR.