About the Authors

Varinder Singh

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar-143005, Punjab, India

Sunil C. Kaul

Affiliation Cell Proliferation Research Group and DBT-AIST International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 8562, Japan

Renu Wadhwa

Affiliation Cell Proliferation Research Group and DBT-AIST International Laboratory for Advanced Biomedicine, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 8562, Japan

Pratap Kumar Pati

pkpati@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar-143005, Punjab, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VS PKP. Performed the experiments: VS. Analyzed the data: VS SCK RW PKP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PKP. Wrote the paper: VS SCK RW PKP.