About the Authors

Sanjeev Kumar

Contributed equally to this work with: Sanjeev Kumar, Saima Aslam

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, Department of Biochemistry, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India

Saima Aslam

Contributed equally to this work with: Sanjeev Kumar, Saima Aslam

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Mohit Mazumder

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Pradeep Dahiya

Affiliation Plant Mediator Lab, National Institute of Plant & Genome Research, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Aruna Murmu

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Babu A. Manjasetty

Affiliations European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Grenoble Outstation, France, Unit for Virus Host-Cell Interactions, Université Grenoble Alpes - EMBL-CNRS, France

Rana Zaidi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India

Alok Bhattacharya

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

S. Gourinath

samudralag@yahoo.com

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SK SA AB SG. Performed the experiments: SK SA MM PD AM BAM. Analyzed the data: SK SA MM BAM RZ AB SG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB SG. Wrote the paper: SK SA MM BAM RZ AB SG.