About the Authors

Sudipta Das

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

Himanish Basu

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

Reshma Korde

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

Rita Tewari

Affiliation Centre for Genetics and Genomics, Queen's Medical Centre, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Shobhona Sharma

sharma@tifr.res.in

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: This work was filed for Indian Patent on 17/06/11 and the patent number is 1773/MUM/2011. This does not alter our adherence to all PLoS Pathogens policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SD HB SS. Performed the experiments: SD HB RK RT. Analyzed the data: SD HB RK SS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RT. Wrote the paper: SD SS.