About the Authors

Santosh K. Panda

Affiliation Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India

Sunil Kumar

Affiliation Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India

Nitin C. Tupperwar

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Tushar Vaidya

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Anna George

Affiliation National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India

Satyajit Rath

Affiliation National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India

Vineeta Bal

Affiliation National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India

Balachandran Ravindran

ravindran8@gmail.com

Affiliation Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BR along with his collaborators AG, VB and SR conceived the project, assisted in designing some of the study and some of the experiments were conducted in the collaborators laboratory at NII, Delhi by SKP. Performed the experiments: SKP performed the most part of experiments. SKP, NCT and TV performed Q-PCR data reported here at TVs laboratory at CCMB, Hyderabad. SK performed all In silico analysis reported in the manuscript. Analyzed the data: SKP, BR, AG, SR and VB. Wrote the paper: SKP wrote the initial draft and it was finalized and completed by BR along with TV, AG, SR and VB.