About the Authors

Shaheer Ahmad

Contributed equally to this work with: Shaheer Ahmad, Debapriya Bhattacharya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Debapriya Bhattacharya

Contributed equally to this work with: Shaheer Ahmad, Debapriya Bhattacharya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Centre for Biotechnology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University, Bhubaneswar, India

Affiliation Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Neeta Gupta

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software

Affiliation Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Varsha Rawat

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Sultan Tousif

Roles Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Affiliation Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Luc Van Kaer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Gobardhan Das

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

gobardhan.das07@gmail.com

Affiliation Special Centre for Molecular Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.