About the Authors

Fazlurrahman Khan

Affiliation Institute of Microbial Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Chandigarh, India

Deepika Pal

Affiliation Institute of Microbial Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Chandigarh, India

Surendra Vikram

Affiliation Institute of Microbial Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Chandigarh, India

Swaranjit Singh Cameotra

ssc@imtech.res.in

Affiliation Institute of Microbial Technology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Chandigarh, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SSC FK. Performed the experiments: FK DP SV. Analyzed the data: FK SSC. Wrote the paper: SSC FK.