About the Authors

Indu Khatri

Contributed equally to this work with: Indu Khatri, Shailza Sharma

Affiliation CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39A, Chandigarh, India

Shailza Sharma

Contributed equally to this work with: Indu Khatri, Shailza Sharma

Affiliation CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39A, Chandigarh, India

T. N. C. Ramya

ramya@imtech.res.in (TNCR); krishna@imtech.res.in (SS)

Affiliation CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39A, Chandigarh, India

Srikrishna Subramanian

ramya@imtech.res.in (TNCR); krishna@imtech.res.in (SS)

Affiliation CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39A, Chandigarh, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: S. Subramanian TNCR. Performed the experiments: S. Sharma IK. Analyzed the data: IK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TNCR IK S. Sharma. Wrote the paper: IK S. Sharma TNCR S. Subramanian.