About the Authors

Satyendra Chandra Tripathi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Ajay Matta

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Centre for Research in Mass Spectrometry, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Jatinder Kaur

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Jorg Grigull

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Shyam Singh Chauhan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Alok Thakar

Affiliation Department of Otorhinolaryngology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Nootan Kumar Shukla

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Dr. B. R. A. Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Ritu Duggal

Affiliation Department of Dental Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Siddhartha DattaGupta

Affiliation Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Ranju Ralhan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ranju Ralhan, K. W. Michael Siu

ralhanr@yorku.ca (RR); kwmsiu@yorku.ca (KWMS)

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Centre for Research in Mass Spectrometry, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Joseph and Mildred Sonshine Family Centre for Head and Neck Diseases, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

K. W. Michael Siu

Contributed equally to this work with: Ranju Ralhan, K. W. Michael Siu

ralhanr@yorku.ca (RR); kwmsiu@yorku.ca (KWMS)

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Centre for Research in Mass Spectrometry, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM RR MS. Performed the experiments: SCT AM. Analyzed the data: SCT AM JK JG SD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SSC AT NKS RD SD RR MS. Wrote the paper: SCT AM RR MS.