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Acknowledgements We are immensely grateful to Prof. YiPing Chen at Tulane University, USA, for the gift of mouse strains. We thank Prof. Frank Beier of Western University, Ontario, Canada for teaching APJ the method of ACL transection. We sincerely thank Shuchi Arora and Ankita Jena for their critical comments on the manuscript. We are highly grateful to Niveda Udaykumar and Saahiba Thaleshwari for their help in blind OARSI scoring. We thank Mr. Naresh Gupta for assistance with mouse experiments. Funding This work was supported by grants from the Department of Biotechnology, India (DBT) BT/PR17362/MED/30/1648/2017 and BT/IN/DENMARK/08/JD/2016 to A.B.; Versus Arthritis Grants 19667 and 21156 to CDB and AJR, Fellowships to APJ, BK, and SFI are supported by fellowships from the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India. Fellowship to AKS was supported by Science and Engineering Research Board, Govt. of India. APJ travelled to Western University Canada with Shastri Research Student Fellowship (SRSF, 2015-‘16). A.H.K.R. was supported by the Wellcome Trust through the Scottish Translational Medicine and Therapeutics Initiative (Grant No. WT 085664).Peer reviewedPostprin