About the Authors

Sultan Tousif

Contributed equally to this work with: Sultan Tousif, Yogesh Singh

Affiliation Immunology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India

Yogesh Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Sultan Tousif, Yogesh Singh

Affiliations Immunology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India, MicroRNA and Lymphocyte Development Research Group, Department of Veterinary Basic Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom

Durbaka Vijaya Raghava Prasad

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Yogi Vamana University, Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, India

Pawan Sharma

Affiliation Immunology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India

Luc Van Kaer

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Gobardhan Das

dasgo@icgeb.res.in

Affiliation Immunology Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST YS GD. Performed the experiments: ST YS. Analyzed the data: ST YS GD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DVRP PS LVK. Wrote the paper: YS LKV GD.