About the Authors

Parul Mehrotra

Contributed equally to this work with: Parul Mehrotra, Shilpa V. Jamwal

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

Shilpa V. Jamwal

Contributed equally to this work with: Parul Mehrotra, Shilpa V. Jamwal

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

Najmuddin Saquib

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

Neeraj Sinha

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

Zaved Siddiqui

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

Venkatasamy Manivel

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

Samrat Chatterjee

Current address: Drug Discovery Research Centre, Translational Health Science & Technology Institute, Gurgaon, India

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

Kanury V. S. Rao

kanury@icgeb.res.in

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PM SVJ KVSR. Performed the experiments: PM SVJ ZS SC. Analyzed the data: PM SC SVJ NMS VM KVSR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NMS NS VM. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: PM SVJ SC KVSR.