About the Authors

Surela Bhattacharya

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Dr. B.C. Guha Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

N. Maruthi Kumar

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India

Arnab Ganguli

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Dr. B.C. Guha Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

Mukund P. Tantak

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India

Dalip Kumar

gcbcg@caluniv.ac.in (GC); dalipk@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in (DK)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India

Gopal Chakrabarti

gcbcg@caluniv.ac.in (GC); dalipk@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in (DK)

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology and Dr. B.C. Guha Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB DK GC. Performed the experiments: SB AG NMK MPT. Analyzed the data: SB GC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DK GC. Wrote the manuscript: SB DK GC.