About the Authors

Bhaskari Janardhan

Contributed equally to this work with: Bhaskari Janardhan, Shilpa Vaderhobli, Lakshmi Krishnamoorthy

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, 560029, India

Shilpa Vaderhobli

Contributed equally to this work with: Bhaskari Janardhan, Shilpa Vaderhobli, Lakshmi Krishnamoorthy

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, 560029, India

Rahul Bhagat

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, 560029, India

Premalata Chennagiri Srinivasamurthy

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Pallavi Venketeshiah Reddihalli

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Gynec-oncology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Ramesh Gawari

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, 560029, India

Lakshmi Krishnamoorthy

Contributed equally to this work with: Bhaskari Janardhan, Shilpa Vaderhobli, Lakshmi Krishnamoorthy

vkrishlakshmi@gmail.com

Current Address: Department of Biochemistry, Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital and Research centre, Bangalore, 560004, India

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore, 560029, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BJ SV RB RG LK. Performed the experiments: BJ. Analyzed the data: BJ SV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BJ PCS SV RB PVR RG LK. Wrote the paper: BJ SV LK.