About the Authors

Ayokunmi Omolola Oyeleye

Contributed equally to this work with: Ayokunmi Omolola Oyeleye, Siti Faridah Mohd Yusoff, Izzah Nadiah Abd Rahim, Yahaya M. Normi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Biomedicinal Research Center, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, Oyo State Nigeria

Affiliations Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Center, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Siti Faridah Mohd Yusoff

Contributed equally to this work with: Ayokunmi Omolola Oyeleye, Siti Faridah Mohd Yusoff, Izzah Nadiah Abd Rahim, Yahaya M. Normi

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Izzah Nadiah Abd Rahim

Contributed equally to this work with: Ayokunmi Omolola Oyeleye, Siti Faridah Mohd Yusoff, Izzah Nadiah Abd Rahim, Yahaya M. Normi

Roles Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Adam Thean Chor Leow

Roles Resources, Supervision

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Center, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Noor Baity Saidi

Roles Supervision

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Yahaya M. Normi

Contributed equally to this work with: Ayokunmi Omolola Oyeleye, Siti Faridah Mohd Yusoff, Izzah Nadiah Abd Rahim, Yahaya M. Normi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

normi_yahaya@upm.edu.my

Affiliations Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Center, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.