About the Authors

Hana Bashir Shawish

Contributed equally to this work with: Hana Bashir Shawish, Wan Ying Wong, Yi Li Wong

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Wan Ying Wong

Contributed equally to this work with: Hana Bashir Shawish, Wan Ying Wong, Yi Li Wong

Affiliation Institute of Biological Sciences at the Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Yi Li Wong

Contributed equally to this work with: Hana Bashir Shawish, Wan Ying Wong, Yi Li Wong

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sheng Wei Loh

Affiliation Institute of Biological Sciences at the Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Chung Yeng Looi

looicy@um.edu.my (CYL); mjamil@um.edu.my (MJM)

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Pouya Hassandarvish

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Alicia Yi Ling Phan

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Won Fen Wong

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Hao Wang

Affiliations School of Pharmacy, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, Ningxia, P. R. China, Department of Oral Biology and Biomedical Sciences, and Oral Cancer Research and Coordinating Centre, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Ian C. Paterson

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology and Biomedical Sciences, and Oral Cancer Research and Coordinating Centre, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Chee Kwee Ea

Affiliation Institute of Biological Sciences at the Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Mohd Rais Mustafa

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Mohd Jamil Maah

looicy@um.edu.my (CYL); mjamil@um.edu.my (MJM)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CYL CKE MRM MJM. Performed the experiments: HBS WYW YLW SWL PH AYLP. Analyzed the data: CYL WFW CKE. Wrote the paper: HBS CYL CKE. Performed molecular docking: HW ICP.