Marsha Pellegrino: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Validation
Gianandrea Traversi: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Methodology
Andrea Arena: Role: Formal analysisRole: Visualization
Marco Cappa: Role: InvestigationRole: Resources
M. Manuela Rosado: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Validation
Marco Andreani:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3451-3624
Role: Methodology
Domenico V. Delfino: Role: Conceptualization
Fabiola Moretti: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review
& editing
Alessandra Fierabracci:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3078-9754
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: Funding acquisitionRole:
InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole:
Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Keun Seok Seo: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
29
January
2020
Publication date Collection: 2020
Volume: 15
Issue: 1
Electronic Location Identifier: e0228296
Affiliations
[1
]
Infectivology and Clinical Trials Research Department, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital,
IRCCS, Rome, Italy
[2
]
Endocrinology Department, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
[3
]
Research Laboratories, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy
[4
]
Transplantation Immunogenetics Laboratory, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS,
Rome, Italy
[5
]
Section of Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
[6
]
Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology, National Research Council of Italy (CNR),
Rome, Italy
Mississippi State University, UNITED STATES
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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PONE-D-19-20262
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0228296
PMC ID: 6988923
PubMed ID: 31995625
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the original author and source are credited.
Funded by: Italian Ministry of Health Ricerca corrente
Award ID: 201802P004265
Award Recipient
:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3078-9754
Alessandra Fierabracci
Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100005010, Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro;
Award ID: IG21814
Award Recipient
:
Fabiola Moretti
AF 201802P004265 Italian Ministry of Health Ricerca Corrente FM IG 21814 AIRC (Associazione
Italiana Ricerca sul Cancro) The funders had no role in study design, data collection
and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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