About the Authors

Priyanka Das

Contributed equally to this work with: Priyanka Das, Amit Lahiri, Ayan Lahiri

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

Amit Lahiri

Contributed equally to this work with: Priyanka Das, Amit Lahiri, Ayan Lahiri

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

Ayan Lahiri

Contributed equally to this work with: Priyanka Das, Amit Lahiri, Ayan Lahiri

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

Minakshi Sen

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

Namrata Iyer

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

Nisha Kapoor

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

Kithiganahalli Narayanaswamy Balaji

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

Dipshikha Chakravortty

dipa@mcbl.iisc.ernet.in

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PD Amit Lahiri DC KNB. Performed the experiments: PD Amit Lahiri NI NK MS Ayan Lahiri. Analyzed the data: PD Amit Lahiri DC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DC KNB. Wrote the paper: Amit Lahiri DC.