About the Authors

Vallerinteavide Mavelli Girish

Contributed equally to this work with: Vallerinteavide Mavelli Girish, Sundramurthy Kumar

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

Sundramurthy Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Vallerinteavide Mavelli Girish, Sundramurthy Kumar

Current address: Scientific Services, Biopolis Shared Facility, Singapore, Singapore

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

Lissa Joseph

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

Chacko Jobichen

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

R. Manjunatha Kini

dbskinim@nus.edu.sg (RMK); dbsjayar@nus.edu.sg (JS)

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

J. Sivaraman

dbskinim@nus.edu.sg (RMK); dbsjayar@nus.edu.sg (JS)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JS RMK. Performed the experiments: VMG SK LJ CJ. Analyzed the data: JS RMK VMG CJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS RMK. Wrote the paper: JS RMK VMG CJ.