About the Authors

Amit Lahiri

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Ayan Lahiri

Contributed equally to this work with: Ayan Lahiri, Priyanka Das

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Priyanka Das

Contributed equally to this work with: Ayan Lahiri, Priyanka Das

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Janakiraman Vani

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

M. S. Shaila

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Dipshikha Chakravortty

dipa@mcbl.iisc.ernet.in

Affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Amit Lahiri MSS DC. Performed the experiments: Amit Lahiri PD Ayan Lahiri JV. Analyzed the data: Amit Lahiri DC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DC. Wrote the paper: Amit Lahiri DC.