About the Authors

Anoop Narayanan

Contributed equally to this work with: Anoop Narayanan, Lake N. Paul

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Lake N. Paul

Contributed equally to this work with: Anoop Narayanan, Lake N. Paul

Affiliation Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Sakshi Tomar

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India

Dipak N. Patil

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India

Pravindra Kumar

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India

Dinesh A. Yernool

dyernool@purdue.edu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AN LNP PK DAY. Performed the experiments: AN LNP ST. Analyzed the data: AN LNP PK DAY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DNP LNP. Wrote the paper: AN LNP.