About the Authors

Azeem Mehmood Butt

Contributed equally to this work with: Azeem Mehmood Butt, Izza Nasrullah

azeem@cemb.edu.pk (AMB); tong.yigang@gmail.com (YT)

Affiliation National Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Izza Nasrullah

Contributed equally to this work with: Azeem Mehmood Butt, Izza Nasrullah

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Shifa Tahir

Affiliation National Center for Bioinformatics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Yigang Tong

azeem@cemb.edu.pk (AMB); tong.yigang@gmail.com (YT)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AMB YT. Performed the experiments: AMB IN ST. Analyzed the data: AMB IN ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AMB YT. Wrote the paper: AMB IN ST.