About the Authors

Saba Naz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Signal Transduction Lab, National Institute of Immunology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India, Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Shruti Dabral

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Cellular Immunology Group, International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Sathya Narayanan Nagarajan

Roles Investigation

Current address: Molecular Microbiology and Structural Biochemistry, UMR5086, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, Lyon, France

Affiliation Signal Transduction Lab, National Institute of Immunology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Divya Arora

Roles Investigation

Current address: Molecular Immunity Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Affiliation Signal Transduction Lab, National Institute of Immunology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Lakshya Veer Singh

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Cellular Immunology Group, International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Pradeep Kumar

Roles Investigation

Current address: Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, India

Yogendra Singh

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Dhiraj Kumar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Cellular Immunology Group, International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Umesh Varshney

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

varshney@iisc.ac.in (UV); vinaykn@nii.ac.in (VKN)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, India

Vinay Kumar Nandicoori

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

varshney@iisc.ac.in (UV); vinaykn@nii.ac.in (VKN)

Affiliation Signal Transduction Lab, National Institute of Immunology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.