About the Authors

Singh Rajender

Contributed equally to this work with: Singh Rajender, Silas Justin Carlus

rajender_singh@cdri.res.in (SR); thangs@ccmb.res.in (KT)

Affiliation CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India

Silas Justin Carlus

Contributed equally to this work with: Singh Rajender, Silas Justin Carlus

Affiliations Centre for Genetics and Inherited Diseases (CGID), Taibah University, Al- Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India

Sandeep Kumar Bansal

Affiliation CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India

Mahendra Pratap Singh Negi

Affiliation CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India

Nirmala Sadasivam

Affiliation Maaruthi Medical Centre and Hospitals, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India

Muthusamy Narayanan Sadasivam

Affiliation Maaruthi Medical Centre and Hospitals, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India

Kumarasamy Thangaraj

rajender_singh@cdri.res.in (SR); thangs@ccmb.res.in (KT)

Affiliation CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SR SJC KT. Performed the experiments: SR SJC SKB. Analyzed the data: SR SJC SKB MPSN KT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SR SJC NS MNS. Wrote the paper: SR SJC SKB KT.