About the Authors

Zeinab Takalloo

Contributed equally to this work with: Zeinab Takalloo, Zahra Afshar Ardakani

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Zahra Afshar Ardakani

Contributed equally to this work with: Zeinab Takalloo, Zahra Afshar Ardakani

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Bahman Maroufi

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Mah Behin Gene Gostaran Company, Tehran, Iran

S. Shirin Shahangian

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran

Reza H. Sajedi

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

sajedi_r@modares.ac.ir

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Competing Interests

MBGG provided some instruments for authors, and contributed in analysis of spectroscopic data. The commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.