About the Authors

Anup Kumar Biswas

¤ Current address: Department of Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Science Park Research Division, Smithville, Texas, United States of America

Affiliations Malaria Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India , School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Abdul Hafiz

Affiliation Malaria Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India

Bhaswati Banerjee

Affiliation School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Kwang Sik Kim

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kasturi Datta

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kdatta@mail.jnu.ac.in (KD); cchitnis@icgeb.res.in (CEC)

Affiliation School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Chetan E Chitnis

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: kdatta@mail.jnu.ac.in (KD); cchitnis@icgeb.res.in (CEC)

Affiliation Malaria Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

AKB, AH, KD, and CEC conceived and designed the experiments and analyzed the data. AKB, AH, and BB performed the experiments. AKB, BB, KSK, KD, and CEC contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. AKB, KD, and CEC wrote the paper.