About the Authors

Barun Mahata

Contributed equally to this work with: Barun Mahata, Soumika Biswas

Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Soumika Biswas

Contributed equally to this work with: Barun Mahata, Soumika Biswas

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States of America

Patricia Rayman

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States of America

Ali Chahlavi

Affiliation Spine and Brain Institute, St. Vincent Medical Center, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Jennifer Ko

Affiliation Pathology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States of America

Ashish Bhattacharjee

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India

Yu-Teh Li

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, United States of America

Yuntao Li

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States of America

Tanya Das

Affiliations Division of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India, Department of Immunology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States of America

Gaurisankar Sa

Affiliations Division of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India, Department of Immunology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States of America

Baisakhi Raychaudhuri

Affiliation Brain Tumor and Neuro-oncology Center in the Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States of America

Michael A. Vogelbaum

Affiliation Brain Tumor and Neuro-oncology Center in the Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States of America

Charles Tannenbaum

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States of America

James H. Finke

Affiliation Department of Immunology, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States of America

Kaushik Biswas

kaushik@jcbose.ac.in

Affiliation Division of Molecular Medicine, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KB BM SB JHF. Performed the experiments: BM SB PR KB AC JK AB YTL YL TD GS BR MV CT. Analyzed the data: KB BM SB PR JHF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JHF. Wrote the paper: KB JHF BM.