About the Authors

Sandeepa M. Eswarappa

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Jessin Janice

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Arvindhan G. Nagarajan

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Sudhagar V. Balasundaram

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Guruswamy Karnam

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Narendra M. Dixit

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Dipshikha Chakravortty

dipa@mcbl.iisc.ernet.in

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SME. Performed the experiments: SME JJ AGN GK SVB. Analyzed the data: SME JJ AGN NMD DC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DC. Wrote the paper: SME.