About the Authors

Kamran Jawed

Affiliation Microbial Engineering Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Anu Jose Mattam

Affiliation Microbial Engineering Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Zia Fatma

Affiliation Microbial Engineering Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Saima Wajid

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi, India

Malik Z. Abdin

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi, India

Syed Shams Yazdani

shams@icgeb.res.in

Affiliations Microbial Engineering Group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India, DBT-ICGEB Centre for Advanced Bioenergy Research, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KJ SW MZA SSY. Performed the experiments: KJ AJM ZF. Analyzed the data: KJ SSY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SSY. Wrote the paper: KJ SSY.