About the Authors

Charuvaka Muvva

Affiliations Chemical Laboratory, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai, India, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), New Delhi, India

Sanjukta Patra

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam, India

Subramanian Venkatesan

subuchem@hotmail.com; subbu@clri.res.in

Affiliation Chemical Laboratory, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CM SV. Performed the experiments: CM SP. Analyzed the data: CM SV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CM. Wrote the paper: CM SP SV.