About the Authors

Amrita Dawn

Contributed equally to this work with: Amrita Dawn, Shailja Singh

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

Shailja Singh

Contributed equally to this work with: Amrita Dawn, Shailja Singh

Affiliations Malaria Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, India, Malaria Parasite Biology and Vaccines Unit, Department of Parasites and Insect Vectors, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Kunal R. More

KRM and FAS also contributed equally to this work.

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

Faiza Amber Siddiqui

KRM and FAS also contributed equally to this work.

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

Niseema Pachikara

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

Ghania Ramdani

Affiliation Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire Comparative des Apicomplexes, Institut Cochin, INSERM U1016, CNRS UMR 8104, Paris, France

Gordon Langsley

Affiliation Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire Comparative des Apicomplexes, Institut Cochin, INSERM U1016, CNRS UMR 8104, Paris, France

Chetan E. Chitnis

chetan.chitnis@pasteur.fr

Affiliations Malaria Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, India, Malaria Parasite Biology and Vaccines Unit, Department of Parasites and Insect Vectors, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AD SS GL CEC. Performed the experiments: AD SS KRM FAS NP. Analyzed the data: AD SS KRM FAS NP GR GL CEC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AD SS NP GR GL. Wrote the paper: AD SS NP GR GL CEC.