About the Authors

Arunava Dasgupta

Contributed equally to this work with: Arunava Dasgupta, Kamakshi Sureka

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

Affiliation Unité de Génétique Mycobactérienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Kamakshi Sureka

Contributed equally to this work with: Arunava Dasgupta, Kamakshi Sureka

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Devrani Mitra

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Baisakhee Saha

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Sourav Sanyal

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Amit K. Das

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Parul Chakrabarti

Current address: Bengal Tuberculosis Association, Kolkata, India

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Mary Jackson

Current address: Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America

Affiliation Unité de Génétique Mycobactérienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Brigitte Gicquel

Affiliation Unité de Génétique Mycobactérienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Manikuntala Kundu

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Joyoti Basu

joyoti@vsnl.com

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AKD PC MJ BG MK JB. Performed the experiments: AD KS DM BS SS MK. Analyzed the data: AD KS DM BS AKD MJ MK JB. Wrote the paper: MK JB.