About the Authors

Sougata Roy Chowdhury

Affiliations Materials Science Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, Immunology lab, Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India

Suman Sengupta

Contributed equally to this work with: Suman Sengupta, Subir Biswas

Affiliation Immunology lab, Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India

Subir Biswas

Contributed equally to this work with: Suman Sengupta, Subir Biswas

Affiliation Immunology lab, Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India

Tridib Kumar Sinha

Affiliation Materials Science Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Ramkrishna Sen

rksen@yahoo.com (RS); arindam19@yahoo.com (AB)

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Ratan Kumar Basak

Affiliation Materials Science Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Basudam Adhikari

Affiliation Materials Science Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Arindam Bhattacharyya

rksen@yahoo.com (RS); arindam19@yahoo.com (AB)

Affiliation Immunology lab, Department of Zoology, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SRC SS RKB RS BA AB. Performed the experiments: SRC SS SB RKB TKS. Analyzed the data: SRC SS SB RKB TKS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RS BA AB. Wrote the paper: SRC SS SB RKB RS BA AB.