About the Authors

Nachiket P. Marathe

Contributed equally to this work with: Nachiket P. Marathe, Viduthalai R. Regina

Affiliation Microbial Culture Collection (MCC), National Center for Cell Science, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Viduthalai R. Regina

Contributed equally to this work with: Nachiket P. Marathe, Viduthalai R. Regina

Current address: The Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Centre (iNANO), Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Affiliation Microbial Culture Collection (MCC), National Center for Cell Science, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Sandeep A. Walujkar

Affiliation Microbial Culture Collection (MCC), National Center for Cell Science, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Shakti Singh Charan

Affiliation Microbial Culture Collection (MCC), National Center for Cell Science, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Edward R. B. Moore

Affiliations Culture Collection University of Gothenburg (CCUG), Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

D. G. Joakim Larsson

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Yogesh S. Shouche

yogesh@nccs.res.in

Affiliation Microbial Culture Collection (MCC), National Center for Cell Science, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YSS ERBM DGJL. Performed the experiments: NPM VRR SAW SSC. Analyzed the data: NPM VRR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YSS ERBM DGJL. Wrote the paper: NPM VRR DGJL.