About the Authors

Afaf El-Ansary

Affiliations Central Laboratory, Center for Female Scientific and Medical Colleges, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Therapuetic Chemistry Department, National Research Centre, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt

Wail M. Hassan

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Hanan Qasem

Affiliation Biochemistry Department, Science College, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Undurti N. Das

undurti@hotmail.com

Affiliations UND Life Sciences, 2020 S 360th St, # K-202, Federal Way, Washington, 98003, United States of America, BioScience Research Centre, GVP College of Engineering Campus, Visakhapatnam-530048, India

Competing Interests

UND is employed by UND Life Sciences but UND Life Sciences did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AE UND. Data curation: AE WH HQ UND. Formal analysis: AE WH HQ UND. Funding acquisition: AE WH. Investigation: AE WH HQ. Methodology: AE HQ. Project administration: AE WH. Resources: AE UND. Software: WH. Supervision: AE. Validation: AE UND. Visualization: AE UND. Writing – original draft: AE UND. Writing – review & editing: AE UND.