About the Authors

Gopalkrishna Sreejit

Contributed equally to this work with: Gopalkrishna Sreejit, Asma Ahmed

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Nampally, Hyderabad, India

Asma Ahmed

Contributed equally to this work with: Gopalkrishna Sreejit, Asma Ahmed

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Nampally, Hyderabad, India

Nazia Parveen

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Nampally, Hyderabad, India

Vishwanath Jha

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Nampally, Hyderabad, India

Vijaya Lakshmi Valluri

Affiliation Division of Immunology and Molecular Biology, LEPRA Society-Blue Peter Research Centre, Hyderabad, India

Sudip Ghosh

Affiliation Molecular Biology Unit, National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR), Jamai-Osmania Hyderabad, India

Sangita Mukhopadhyay

sangita@cdfd.org.in, sangitacdfd@gmail.com

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Nampally, Hyderabad, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SM. Performed the experiments: GS AA NP VJ. Analyzed the data: GS AA NP SM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SG VLV. Wrote the paper: SM GS AA. Manuscript editing: SG SM.