About the Authors

Sahana Holla

Contributed equally to this work with: Sahana Holla, Praveen Prakhar

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Praveen Prakhar

Contributed equally to this work with: Sahana Holla, Praveen Prakhar

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Vikas Singh

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Anupama Karnam

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Tanushree Mukherjee

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Kasturi Mahadik

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Pankti Parikh

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Centre for Infectious Disease Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Amit Singh

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Centre for Infectious Disease Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

R. S. Rajmani

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Centre for Infectious Disease Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Subbaraya G. Ramachandra

Affiliation Central Animal Facility, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Kithiganahalli Narayanaswamy Balaji

balaji@mcbl.iisc.ernet.in

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH PPr KNB. Performed the experiments: SH PPr VS AK TM KM RSR. Analyzed the data: SH PPr KNB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AS PPa SGR. Wrote the paper: SH KNB.