About the Authors

Ugo Ala

Contributed equally to this work with: Ugo Ala, Rosario Michael Piro

Affiliation Molecular Biotechnology Center, Department of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Rosario Michael Piro

Contributed equally to this work with: Ugo Ala, Rosario Michael Piro

Affiliation Molecular Biotechnology Center, Department of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Elena Grassi

Affiliation Molecular Biotechnology Center, Department of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Christian Damasco

Affiliation Molecular Biotechnology Center, Department of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Lorenzo Silengo

Affiliation Molecular Biotechnology Center, Department of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Martin Oti

Affiliation Department of Human Genetics and Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Paolo Provero

paolo.provero@unito.it (PP); ferdinando.dicunto@unito.it (FDC)

Affiliation Molecular Biotechnology Center, Department of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Ferdinando Di Cunto

paolo.provero@unito.it (PP); ferdinando.dicunto@unito.it (FDC)

Affiliation Molecular Biotechnology Center, Department of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: UA RMP PP FDC. Analyzed the data: UA RMP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EG CD LS MO. Wrote the paper: PP FDC.