About the Authors

Navjot Shah

Affiliation Cell Proliferation Research Group and DBT-AIST International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8562, Japan

Rumani Singh

Affiliation Cell Proliferation Research Group and DBT-AIST International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8562, Japan

Upasana Sarangi

Affiliation Cell Proliferation Research Group and DBT-AIST International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8562, Japan

Nishant Saxena

Affiliation Cell Proliferation Research Group and DBT-AIST International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8562, Japan

Anupama Chaudhary

Affiliation Cell Proliferation Research Group and DBT-AIST International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8562, Japan

Gurcharan Kaur

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 143005, India

Sunil C. Kaul

renu-wadhwa@aist.go.jp (RW); s-kaul@aist.go.jp (SCK)

Affiliation Cell Proliferation Research Group and DBT-AIST International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8562, Japan

Renu Wadhwa

renu-wadhwa@aist.go.jp (RW); s-kaul@aist.go.jp (SCK)

Affiliation Cell Proliferation Research Group and DBT-AIST International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine (DAILAB), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8562, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SCK RW. Performed the experiments: N. Shah RS US N. Saxena AC. Analyzed the data: GK SCK RW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SCK RW. Wrote the paper: SCK RW.