About the Authors

Shiva Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Shiva Kumar, Suguna Badireddy

Current address: Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Suguna Badireddy

Contributed equally to this work with: Shiva Kumar, Suguna Badireddy

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Kuntal Pal

Current address: Van Andel Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Shikha Sharma

Affiliation Institute of Microbial Technology, CSIR, Sector 39-A, Chandigarh, India

Chandni Arora

Affiliation Institute of Microbial Technology, CSIR, Sector 39-A, Chandigarh, India

Saurabh K. Garg

Current address: Vollum Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Affiliation Institute of Microbial Technology, CSIR, Sector 39-A, Chandigarh, India

Mohamed Suhail Alam

Current address: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America

Affiliation Institute of Microbial Technology, CSIR, Sector 39-A, Chandigarh, India

Pushpa Agrawal

pushpa@imtech.res.in (PA); dbsgsa@nus.edu.sg (GSA); dbsks@nus.edu.sg (KS)

Affiliation Institute of Microbial Technology, CSIR, Sector 39-A, Chandigarh, India

Ganesh Srinivasan Anand

pushpa@imtech.res.in (PA); dbsgsa@nus.edu.sg (GSA); dbsks@nus.edu.sg (KS)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Kunchithapadam Swaminathan

pushpa@imtech.res.in (PA); dbsgsa@nus.edu.sg (GSA); dbsks@nus.edu.sg (KS)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the paper: SB SK PA. Initiated the project and designed biophysical studies: PA. Proposed and designed the hydrogen deuterium exchange studies: GSA KS. Prepared all overexpression constructs, prepared proteins and performed biophysical studies: SS CA SKG MSA. Expressed, purified the proteins and involved in Hydrogen-deutrium (HDX) studies: SK KP. Performed HDX data collection and interpretation: GSA SB SK. Analyzed the biophysical data: PA. Analyzed the HDX data: SK SB GSA KS. Provided the overexpression constructs and contributed all material needed for the biophysical studies: PA. Provided all material for protein overexpression, purification and HDX studies: KS. Provided all material needed for the HDX studies: GSA. Corrected the manuscript: SK PA GSA KS.