About the Authors

Patrick Marcinek

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Marcinek, Aditya Nath Jha, Vidyagouri Shinde

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Aditya Nath Jha

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Marcinek, Aditya Nath Jha, Vidyagouri Shinde

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Vidyagouri Shinde

Contributed equally to this work with: Patrick Marcinek, Aditya Nath Jha, Vidyagouri Shinde

Affiliation LEPRA- Blue Peter Public Health and Research Centre, Hyderabad, India

Arun Sundaramoorthy

Affiliation Department of Zoology, School of Life sciences, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India

Raja Rajkumar

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Naveen Chandra Suryadevara

Affiliation LEPRA- Blue Peter Public Health and Research Centre, Hyderabad, India

Sanjeev Kumar Neela

Affiliation LEPRA- Blue Peter Public Health and Research Centre, Hyderabad, India

Hoang van Tong

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Vellingiri Balachander

Affiliation Department of Zoology, School of Life sciences, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India

Vijaya Lakshmi Valluri

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation LEPRA- Blue Peter Public Health and Research Centre, Hyderabad, India

Kumarasamy Thangaraj

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Thirumalaisamy P Velavan

velavan@medizin.uni-tuebingen.de

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KT TPV VLV. Performed the experiments: PM ANJ VS AS NCS SKN HVT RR. Analyzed the data: HVT TPV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VB KT TPV. Wrote the paper: PM TPV HVT.