About the Authors

Kumarasamy Thangaraj

Contributed equally to this work with: Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Amrita Nandan

thangs@ccmb.res.in (KT); lalji@ccmb.res.in (LS)

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Amrita Nandan

Contributed equally to this work with: Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Amrita Nandan

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Vishwas Sharma

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Varun Kumar Sharma

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Muthukrishnan Eaaswarkhanth

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Pradeep Kumar Patra

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Pt. J.N.M. Medical College, Raipur, Chattisgarh, India

Sandhya Singh

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Sashi Rekha

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Monika Dua

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Narendra Verma

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Alla G. Reddy

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Lalji Singh

thangs@ccmb.res.in (KT); lalji@ccmb.res.in (LS)

Affiliation Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KT LS. Performed the experiments: AN VS VKS AGR. Analyzed the data: AN VS VKS ME. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LS. Wrote the paper: KT AN VS ME. Sample collection: PKP SS SR MD NV.