About the Authors

Jitendra Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Jitendra Kumar, Bikash C. Choudhary

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India

Bikash C. Choudhary

Contributed equally to this work with: Jitendra Kumar, Bikash C. Choudhary

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India

Raghu Metpally

Current address: University of Iowa, Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS) Administration, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India

Qun Zheng

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Michael L. Nonet

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Sowdhamini Ramanathan

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India

Dieter R. Klopfenstein

Affiliations Center for Molecular Physiology of the Brain, Georg August Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Göttingen, Germany

Sandhya P. Koushika

koushika@ncbs.res.in

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SPK. Performed the experiments: JK BCC SPK. Analyzed the data: SPK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RM QZ MLN SR DRK SPK. Wrote the paper: SPK.