About the Authors

Mairaj Ahmed Ansari

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

Swaleha Zubair

Affiliation Women's College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

Anjum Mahmood

Affiliation Molecular and Structural Biology Division, CDRI, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Pushpa Gupta

Affiliation National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and OMD, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Aijaz A. Khan

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, JNMC, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

Umesh D. Gupta

Affiliation National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and OMD, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Ashish Arora

Affiliation Molecular and Structural Biology Division, CDRI, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Mohammad Owais

owais_lakhnawi@yahoo.com

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MO MAA. Performed the experiments: MAA SZ AM PG AAK. Analyzed the data: MO MAA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: UDG AA. Wrote the paper: MO MAA.