About the Authors

Kanjoormana Aryan Manu

Contributed equally to this work with: Kanjoormana Aryan Manu, Muthu K. Shanmugam

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Muthu K. Shanmugam

Contributed equally to this work with: Kanjoormana Aryan Manu, Muthu K. Shanmugam

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Tina H. Ong

Affiliation Division of Cellular and Molecular Research, Humphrey Oei Institute of Cancer Research, National Cancer Centre, Singapore, Singapore

Aruljothi Subramaniam

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Molecular Toxicology Lab, Department of Biotechnology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Kodappully Sivaraman Siveen

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Ekambaram Perumal

Affiliation Molecular Toxicology Lab, Department of Biotechnology, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

Ramar Perumal Samy

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Programme, Department of Microbiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Pradeep Bist

Affiliations Department of Physiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Immunology Program, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Lina H. K. Lim

Affiliations Infectious Diseases Programme, Department of Microbiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Physiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Alan Prem Kumar

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore, Centre for Translational Medicine, Singapore, Singapore, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, United States of America

Kam M. Hui

phcgs@nus.edu.sg (GS); cmrhkm@nccs.com.sg (KMH)

Affiliation Division of Cellular and Molecular Research, Humphrey Oei Institute of Cancer Research, National Cancer Centre, Singapore, Singapore

Gautam Sethi

phcgs@nus.edu.sg (GS); cmrhkm@nccs.com.sg (KMH)

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Immunology Program, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GS APK LHKL KMH. Performed the experiments: KAM MKS THO PB AS KSS. Analyzed the data: GS MKS KAM APK LHKL KMH KSS EP RPS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: APK LHKL. Wrote the paper: MKS KMH GS.