About the Authors

Soumya Gupta

Contributed equally to this work with: Soumya Gupta, Nimi Marcel, Shefali Talwar

Affiliations National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Mechanobiology Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Nimi Marcel

Contributed equally to this work with: Soumya Gupta, Nimi Marcel, Shefali Talwar

Affiliations National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Department of Health Sciences, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka, India

Shefali Talwar

Contributed equally to this work with: Soumya Gupta, Nimi Marcel, Shefali Talwar

Affiliations National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Mechanobiology Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Megha Garg

Affiliations National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Department of Biotechnology, Mysore University, Mysore, Karnataka, India

Indulaxmi R.

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Lakshmi R. Perumalsamy

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Apurva Sarin

Affiliation National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

G. V. Shivashankar

dbsgvs@nus.edu.sg or shiva.gvs@gmail.com

Affiliations National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Mechanobiology Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SG NM ST AS GVS. Performed the experiments: SG NM ST MG IR LRP. Analyzed the data: SG NM ST MG IR LRP AS GVS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG NM ST MG IR LRP. Wrote the paper: SG NM ST AS GVS.