About the Authors

Fawzi Ebrahim

Contributed equally to this work with: Fawzi Ebrahim, Jayanth Suryanarayanan Shankaranarayanan

Current address: Biotechnology Research Center (BTRC), Tripoli, Libya

Affiliation Nanomedicine-Laboratory of Immunology and Molecular Biomedical Research, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Jayanth Suryanarayanan Shankaranarayanan

Contributed equally to this work with: Fawzi Ebrahim, Jayanth Suryanarayanan Shankaranarayanan

Affiliation Nanomedicine-Laboratory of Immunology and Molecular Biomedical Research, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Jagat R. Kanwar

Affiliation Nanomedicine-Laboratory of Immunology and Molecular Biomedical Research, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Sneha Gurudevan

Affiliation Nanomedicine-Laboratory of Immunology and Molecular Biomedical Research, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Uma Maheswari Krishnan

Affiliation Centre for Nanotechnology & Advanced Biomaterials (CeNTAB), School of Chemical & Biotechnology, SASTRA University, Thanjavur, India

Rupinder K. Kanwar

rupinder.kanwar@deakin.edu.au

Affiliation Nanomedicine-Laboratory of Immunology and Molecular Biomedical Research, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RKK. Performed the experiments: FE JSS SG. Analyzed the data: RKK JRK JSS SG UMK FE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RKK JRK. Wrote the paper: FE JSS RKK. Acquired funding for the research: RKK JRK.