About the Authors

Avisek Mahapa

Contributed equally to this work with: Avisek Mahapa, Sukhendu Mandal

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, West Bengal, India

Sukhendu Mandal

Contributed equally to this work with: Avisek Mahapa, Sukhendu Mandal

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Anindya Biswas

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Biswanath Jana

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Soumitra Polley

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Subrata Sau

subratasau@yahoo.co.in (SS); keya_sau@yahoo.co.in (KS)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Keya Sau

subratasau@yahoo.co.in (SS); keya_sau@yahoo.co.in (KS)

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, West Bengal, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS KS. Performed the experiments: AM SM AB BJ SP. Analyzed the data: SS KS AM SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KS SS. Wrote the paper: KS SS AM SM.