About the Authors

Kaushal Kumar Mahto

Contributed equally to this work with: Kaushal Kumar Mahto, Ashutosh Singh

Affiliations Membrane Biology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, Department of Biotechnology, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Kameshwarnagar, Darbhanga, India

Ashutosh Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Kaushal Kumar Mahto, Ashutosh Singh

Affiliation Membrane Biology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Nitesh Kumar Khandelwal

Affiliation Membrane Biology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Nitin Bhardwaj

Affiliation Membrane Biology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Jaykar Jha

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Kameshwarnagar, Darbhanga, India

Rajendra Prasad

rp47@mail.jnu.ac.in

Affiliation Membrane Biology Laboratory, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

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Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KKM AS RP. Performed the experiments: KKM AS NKK NB. Analyzed the data: KKM AS NKK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RP. Wrote the paper: KKM AS NKK JJ RP.