About the Authors

Alexis Nzila

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

alexisnzila@kfupm.edu.sa

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Musa M. Musa

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

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Saravanan Sankara

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Marwan Al-Momani

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Lei Xiang

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Guangdong Provincial Research Center for Environment Pollution Control and Remediation Materials, College of Life Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Qing X. Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America

Competing Interests

NO authors have competing interests