About the Authors

Gagan D. Gupta

Current address: Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Toronto, Canada

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, UAS/GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India

Gautam Dey

Contributed equally to this work with: Gautam Dey, Swetha MG, Balaji Ramalingam, Khader Shameer, Joseph Jose Thottacherry, Joseph Mathew Kalappurakkal

Current address: Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, UAS/GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India

Swetha MG

Contributed equally to this work with: Gautam Dey, Swetha MG, Balaji Ramalingam, Khader Shameer, Joseph Jose Thottacherry, Joseph Mathew Kalappurakkal

Current address: Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, UAS/GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India

Balaji Ramalingam

Contributed equally to this work with: Gautam Dey, Swetha MG, Balaji Ramalingam, Khader Shameer, Joseph Jose Thottacherry, Joseph Mathew Kalappurakkal

Current address: Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP), Bangalore, India

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, UAS/GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India

Khader Shameer

Contributed equally to this work with: Gautam Dey, Swetha MG, Balaji Ramalingam, Khader Shameer, Joseph Jose Thottacherry, Joseph Mathew Kalappurakkal

Current address: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, UAS/GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India

Joseph Jose Thottacherry

Contributed equally to this work with: Gautam Dey, Swetha MG, Balaji Ramalingam, Khader Shameer, Joseph Jose Thottacherry, Joseph Mathew Kalappurakkal

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, UAS/GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India

Joseph Mathew Kalappurakkal

Contributed equally to this work with: Gautam Dey, Swetha MG, Balaji Ramalingam, Khader Shameer, Joseph Jose Thottacherry, Joseph Mathew Kalappurakkal

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, UAS/GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India

Mark T. Howes

Affiliation The University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Queensland, Australia

Ruma Chandran

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, UAS/GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India

Anupam Das

Current address: Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Calcutta, India

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, UAS/GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India

Sindhu Menon

Current address: International Max Planck Research School-MBM, WWU, Muenster, Germany

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, UAS/GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India

Robert G. Parton

Affiliation The University of Queensland, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Queensland, Australia

R. Sowdhamini

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, UAS/GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India

Mukund Thattai

thattai@ncbs.res.in (MT); mayor@ncbs.res.in (SM)

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, UAS/GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India

Satyajit Mayor

thattai@ncbs.res.in (MT); mayor@ncbs.res.in (SM)

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, UAS/GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GDG S.Mayor RS MT. Performed the experiments: GDG GD SMG RC MTH S.Menon JJT JMK AD. Analyzed the data: GD BR MT GDG KS. Wrote the paper: GDG MT S.Mayor GD RP. Contributed equally to this manuscript: GD SMG BR KS JJT JMK.