About the Authors

Awais Altaf

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

awaisaltaf362@yahoo.com (AA); asiakiran8@gmail.com (AK); sabafarooq000@yahoo.com (SF); saim1692@gmail.com (QA)

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan, Faculty of Health Sciences, Equator University of Science and Technology, Masaka, Uganda,

Asia Kiran

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software

awaisaltaf362@yahoo.com (AA); asiakiran8@gmail.com (AK); sabafarooq000@yahoo.com (SF); saim1692@gmail.com (QA)

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

Muhammad Sarwar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

Tahir Maqbool

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

Sumaira Sharif

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan

Hana’a Iqbal

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation

Affiliation National Institute of Virology, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

Saba Farooq

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software

awaisaltaf362@yahoo.com (AA); asiakiran8@gmail.com (AK); sabafarooq000@yahoo.com (SF); saim1692@gmail.com (QA)

Affiliation National Institute of Virology, International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

Qurban Ali

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

awaisaltaf362@yahoo.com (AA); asiakiran8@gmail.com (AK); sabafarooq000@yahoo.com (SF); saim1692@gmail.com (QA)

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Shiming Han

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation School of Biological Sciences and Technology, Liupanshui Normal University, Liupanshui, China

Ajaz Ahmad

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.