About the Authors

Ajoy Basak

abasak@ohri.ca

Affiliation Chronic Diseases Program, Regional Protein Chemistry Center, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottowa, Ottawa, Canada

Abdel-Majid Khatib

Affiliations INSERM, UMRS940, Equipe AVENIR. Institut de Génétique Moléculaire, Hospital St-Louis, Paris, France, Université Paris 7, Paris, France

Dayani Mohottalage

Affiliation Chronic Diseases Program, Regional Protein Chemistry Center, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottowa, Ottawa, Canada

Sarmistha Basak

Affiliation Chronic Diseases Program, Regional Protein Chemistry Center, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottowa, Ottawa, Canada

Maria Kolajova

Affiliation Chronic Diseases Program, Regional Protein Chemistry Center, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Ottowa, Ottawa, Canada

Subhendu Sekhar Bag

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam, India

Amit Basak

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB. Performed the experiments: AB DM SB MK SSB. Analyzed the data: AB AMK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB. Wrote the paper: AB. Took part in discussion and formatting: SB.