About the Authors

Fareeha Amjad

Contributed equally to this work with: Fareeha Amjad, Hamza Khan, Muhammad Islam Khan, Mohsin Ahmad Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

fareehaa22@gmail.com (FA); mohsin@cemb.edu.pk (MAK)

Affiliation Nutraceuticals and Microbial Biotechnology Lab, National Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Hamza Khan

Contributed equally to this work with: Fareeha Amjad, Hamza Khan, Muhammad Islam Khan, Mohsin Ahmad Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Nutraceuticals and Microbial Biotechnology Lab, National Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Muhammad Islam Khan

Contributed equally to this work with: Fareeha Amjad, Hamza Khan, Muhammad Islam Khan, Mohsin Ahmad Khan

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

Affiliation Nutraceuticals and Microbial Biotechnology Lab, National Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Sidra Ayub

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ SA, RB, RP and KM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Nutraceuticals and Microbial Biotechnology Lab, National Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Rashid Bhatti

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

‡ SA, RB, RP and KM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Nutraceuticals and Microbial Biotechnology Lab, National Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Rabbia Pervaiz

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ SA, RB, RP and KM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Qarshi University, Lahore, Pakistan

Kausar Malik

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

‡ SA, RB, RP and KM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Nutraceuticals and Microbial Biotechnology Lab, National Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Mohsin Ahmad Khan

Contributed equally to this work with: Fareeha Amjad, Hamza Khan, Muhammad Islam Khan, Mohsin Ahmad Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

fareehaa22@gmail.com (FA); mohsin@cemb.edu.pk (MAK)

Affiliation Nutraceuticals and Microbial Biotechnology Lab, National Center of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.