About the Authors

Jitendra Kumar

pkapahi@buckinstitute.org (PK); dkillilea@chori.org (DWK); jitendratifr@gmail.com (JK)

Affiliations The Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California, United States of America, DBT-PU-IPLS Programme, Department of Botany/Biotechnology, Patna University, Patna- 800005, Bihar, India

Tracy Barhydt

Affiliation The Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California, United States of America

Anjali Awasthi

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Rajasthan, India

Gordon J. Lithgow

Affiliation The Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California, United States of America

David W. Killilea

pkapahi@buckinstitute.org (PK); dkillilea@chori.org (DWK); jitendratifr@gmail.com (JK)

Affiliation Nutrition & Metabolism Center, Children’s Hospital of Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, California, United States of America

Pankaj Kapahi

pkapahi@buckinstitute.org (PK); dkillilea@chori.org (DWK); jitendratifr@gmail.com (JK)

Affiliation The Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JK DWK PK. Performed the experiments: JK TB DWK. Analyzed the data: JK DWK PK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DWK GJL PK. Wrote the paper: JK AA GJL DWK PK.