About the Authors

Md. Naushad Akhtar

Contributed equally to this work with: Md. Naushad Akhtar, Manish Mishra, Vinod Yadav

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Division of Cell Biology and Immunology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research- Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Manish Mishra

Contributed equally to this work with: Md. Naushad Akhtar, Manish Mishra, Vinod Yadav

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Division of Cell Biology and Immunology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research- Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Vinod Yadav

Contributed equally to this work with: Md. Naushad Akhtar, Manish Mishra, Vinod Yadav

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Current address: Department of Microbiology, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, Haryana, India

Affiliation Division of Cell Biology and Immunology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research- Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Manisha Yadav

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Division of Cell Biology and Immunology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research- Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Ravindra Gujar

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Current address: Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Diseases, Abigail Wexner Research Institute, 700 Children’s Drive, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Division of Cell Biology and Immunology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research- Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Sunaina Lal

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Division of Cell Biology and Immunology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research- Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Raj Kumar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Division of Cell Biology and Immunology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research- Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Neeraj Khatri

Roles Investigation

Affiliation IMTECH-Centre for Animal Resources and Experimentation (iCARE), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Pradip Sen

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

psen@imtech.res.in

Affiliation Division of Cell Biology and Immunology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research- Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.