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M. Nrui, We thank Alberto Gualtieri and Raffaele Gerace for their assistance in setting up the acetylation assay and bioinformatic analysis , respectively. We also thank Francesca Spadaro for scientific collaboration . A.B. is a Teresa Ariaudo Fellowship scholar