About the Authors

Siti Nor Hasmah Ishak

Contributed equally to this work with: Siti Nor Hasmah Ishak, Nor Hafizah Ahmad Kamarudin, Mohd Shukuri Mohamad Ali, Adam Thean Chor Leow, Fairolniza Mohd Shariff, Raja Noor Zaliha Raja Abd Rahman

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Nor Hafizah Ahmad Kamarudin

Contributed equally to this work with: Siti Nor Hasmah Ishak, Nor Hafizah Ahmad Kamarudin, Mohd Shukuri Mohamad Ali, Adam Thean Chor Leow, Fairolniza Mohd Shariff, Raja Noor Zaliha Raja Abd Rahman

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Centre of Foundation Studies for Agricultural Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Mohd Shukuri Mohamad Ali

Contributed equally to this work with: Siti Nor Hasmah Ishak, Nor Hafizah Ahmad Kamarudin, Mohd Shukuri Mohamad Ali, Adam Thean Chor Leow, Fairolniza Mohd Shariff, Raja Noor Zaliha Raja Abd Rahman

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Adam Thean Chor Leow

Contributed equally to this work with: Siti Nor Hasmah Ishak, Nor Hafizah Ahmad Kamarudin, Mohd Shukuri Mohamad Ali, Adam Thean Chor Leow, Fairolniza Mohd Shariff, Raja Noor Zaliha Raja Abd Rahman

Roles Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Fairolniza Mohd Shariff

Contributed equally to this work with: Siti Nor Hasmah Ishak, Nor Hafizah Ahmad Kamarudin, Mohd Shukuri Mohamad Ali, Adam Thean Chor Leow, Fairolniza Mohd Shariff, Raja Noor Zaliha Raja Abd Rahman

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Raja Noor Zaliha Raja Abd Rahman

Contributed equally to this work with: Siti Nor Hasmah Ishak, Nor Hafizah Ahmad Kamarudin, Mohd Shukuri Mohamad Ali, Adam Thean Chor Leow, Fairolniza Mohd Shariff, Raja Noor Zaliha Raja Abd Rahman

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

rnzaliha@upm.edu.my

Affiliations Enzyme and Microbial Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Institute of Bioscience, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, Laboratory of Halal Science Research, Halal Products Research Institute, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.