About the Authors

Sowptika Pal

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory, School of Biosciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Ramani Yuvaraj

Contributed equally to this work with: Ramani Yuvaraj, Hari Krishnan

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Radiological and Environmental Safety Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, India

Hari Krishnan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ramani Yuvaraj, Hari Krishnan

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Radiological and Environmental Safety Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, India

Balasubramanian Venkatraman

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Radiological and Environmental Safety Division, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu, India

Jayanthi Abraham

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Microbial Biotechnology Laboratory, School of Biosciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Anilkumar Gopinathan

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

ganilkumar@vit.ac.in

Affiliation Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory, School of Biosciences and Technology, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.