About the Authors

Kamakshi Sureka

Contributed equally to this work with: Kamakshi Sureka, Bhaswar Ghosh

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Bhaswar Ghosh

Contributed equally to this work with: Kamakshi Sureka, Bhaswar Ghosh

Affiliation Department of Physics, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Arunava Dasgupta

Current address: Department of Immunology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Joyoti Basu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Manikuntala Kundu

manikuntala@vsnl.net

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Indrani Bose

Affiliation Department of Physics, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JB MK KS. Performed the experiments: KS. Analyzed the data: JB MK KS BG IB. Wrote the paper: JB MK IB. Other: Performed some flow cytometry experiments: AD. Did the mathematical modeling: BG IB.