About the Authors

Gomathy Narayanan

Affiliations R. S. Mehta Jain Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Vision Research Foundation, Chennai, India, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (Rajasthan), India

Bharathidevi S. R.

Affiliation R. S. Mehta Jain Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Vision Research Foundation, Chennai, India

Harish Vuyyuru

Affiliation R. S. Mehta Jain Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Vision Research Foundation, Chennai, India

Bharathselvi Muthuvel

Affiliations R. S. Mehta Jain Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Vision Research Foundation, Chennai, India, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (Rajasthan), India

Sulochana Konerirajapuram Natrajan

drkns@snmail.org

Affiliation R. S. Mehta Jain Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Vision Research Foundation, Chennai, India

Competing Interests

The bioactive oligonucleotide si 1 has been filed for patency as an inhibitor of angiogenesis in India (File no: 3221/che'2012). This does not alter the authors' adherence to the PLOS guidelines on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SKN. Performed the experiments: GN HV BSR BM. Analyzed the data: GN SKN BSR. Wrote the paper: GN SKN BSR.