About the Authors

Subbulakshmi Latha Cherukuvada

Contributed equally to this work with: Subbulakshmi Latha Cherukuvada, Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee, Krishnan Raghunathan

Affiliation Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai, India

Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee

Contributed equally to this work with: Subbulakshmi Latha Cherukuvada, Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee, Krishnan Raghunathan

Affiliation Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai, India

Krishnan Raghunathan

Contributed equally to this work with: Subbulakshmi Latha Cherukuvada, Aswin Sai Narain Seshasayee, Krishnan Raghunathan

Affiliation Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai, India

Sharmila Anishetty

Affiliation Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai, India

Gautam Pennathur

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: pgautam@annauniv.edu

Affiliations Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University, Chennai, India , AU-KBC Research Centre, Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

ASNS and GP conceived and designed the experiments. ASNS and KR performed the experiments. SLC, ASNS, KR, SA, and GP analyzed the data. KR wrote the paper.