About the Authors

Saurabh Sudha Dhiman

Contributed equally to this work with: Saurabh Sudha Dhiman, Gaurav Garg

Affiliations Department of Chemical Engineering, Konkuk University, Gwangjin–Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Institute of SK–KU Biomaterials, Konkuk University, Gwangjin–Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Gaurav Garg

Contributed equally to this work with: Saurabh Sudha Dhiman, Gaurav Garg

Affiliations Department of Biotechnology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India, Department of Biotechnology, Maharishi Markandeshwar University, Mullana-Ambala, Haryana, India

Jitender Sharma

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India

Vipin C. Kalia

vckalia@igib.res.in (VCK); yckang@konkuk.ac.kr (YCK); jkrhee@konkuk.ac.kr (JKL)

Affiliation Microbial Biotechnology and Genomics, CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Delhi University Campus, Delhi, India

Yun Chan Kang

vckalia@igib.res.in (VCK); yckang@konkuk.ac.kr (YCK); jkrhee@konkuk.ac.kr (JKL)

Affiliation Department of Chemical Engineering, Konkuk University, Gwangjin–Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Jung-Kul Lee

vckalia@igib.res.in (VCK); yckang@konkuk.ac.kr (YCK); jkrhee@konkuk.ac.kr (JKL)

Affiliations Department of Chemical Engineering, Konkuk University, Gwangjin–Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Institute of SK–KU Biomaterials, Konkuk University, Gwangjin–Gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SSD JS JKL. Performed the experiments: SSD GG. Analyzed the data: SSD JKL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YCK. Wrote the paper: SSD VCK YCK JKL.