About the Authors

Sudarshan Anand Shetty

Contributed equally to this work with: Sudarshan Anand Shetty, Nachiket Prakash Marathe

Affiliation Microbial Culture Collection, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Nachiket Prakash Marathe

Contributed equally to this work with: Sudarshan Anand Shetty, Nachiket Prakash Marathe

Affiliation Microbial Culture Collection, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Vikram Lanjekar

Affiliation Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Dilip Ranade

Affiliation Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Yogesh S. Shouche

yogesh@nccs.res.in

Affiliation Microbial Culture Collection, National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NPM SAS YSS. Performed the experiments: SAS NPM VL DR. Analyzed the data: SAS NPM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YSS DR. Wrote the paper: SAS NPM.