About the Authors

Rajesh Ringe

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

Lipsa Das

Current address: University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

Ipsita Choudhary

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

Deepak Sharma

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

Ramesh Paranjape

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

Virander Singh Chauhan

Affiliation International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, India

Jayanta Bhattacharya

jbhattacharya@nariindia.org

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JB RR. Performed the experiments: RR LD IC DS. Analyzed the data: JB RR DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VSC RP. Wrote the paper: JB RR.