Leishmania highjack host lipid body for its proliferation in macrophages by overexpressing host Rab18 and TRAPPC9 by downregulating miR-1914-3p expression.

"the whole microarray data have been submitted in gene expression omnibus database (accession number gse89529) b sequence alignment of 3 / -utr of host rab18 and trappc9 containing 7-mer target site with the seed region of mir-1914-3p predicted by tagetscan tool."

"The authors have declared that no competing interests exist."

"This work is supported by grants from Department of Biotechnology, Government of India [BT/PR42073/BRB/10/1979/2021] and J.C. Bose Fellowship (SR/S2/JCB-24/2009) to AM by Science and Engineering Research Board, Government of India. CS is supported by fellowship from J.C. Bose Fellowship to AM. JKV (13(9095-A)/2019-Pool), AK (09/086(1373)/2019-EMR-I) and SG (09/086(0085)/2020-EMR-I) are supported by fellowships from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India. RB (2018BLZ8469) is supported by fellowship from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."