About the Authors

Wan Yong Ho

Contributed equally to this work with: Wan Yong Ho, Swee Keong Yeap

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Swee Keong Yeap

Contributed equally to this work with: Wan Yong Ho, Swee Keong Yeap

Affiliation Institute of Biosciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Chai Ling Ho

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Raha Abdul Rahim

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Noorjahan Banu Alitheen

noorjahan@biotech.upm.edu.my

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NBA WYH SKY. Performed the experiments: WYH SKY. Analyzed the data: NBA WYH SKY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NBA CLH RAR. Wrote the paper: WYH.