About the Authors

Shafia Parveen

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University Quetta, Quetta, Pakistan

Shazia Iqbal

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, Quetta, Pakistan

Saima Maher

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

saimamaher@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University Quetta, Quetta, Pakistan

Paul Wilson

Roles Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Warwick University, Coventry, United Kingdom

Habib Nasir

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

Samreen Soomro

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Northern Border University, Rafha, Saudi Arabia

Shazia Nisar

Roles Validation

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

Muhammad Imran

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia

Musarat Riaz

Roles Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University Quetta, Quetta, Pakistan

Rabail Urooj

Roles Resources

Affiliation Department of Environmental Science, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University Quetta, Quetta, Pakistan

Mah Ganj Bakhshi

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University Quetta, Quetta, Pakistan

Maria Essa

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University Quetta, Quetta, Pakistan

Farah Mukhtar

Roles Software

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Sardar Bahadur Khan Women University Quetta, Quetta, Pakistan

Attya Bhatti

Roles Data curation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Biomedicine, Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences (ASAB), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan

Hussnain A. Janjua

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Industrial Biotechnology, Atta-ur-Rahman School of Applied Biosciences (ASAB), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan

Amir Faisal

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Biology, Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

Arsalan Saleem

Roles Visualization

Affiliation Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.