About the Authors

Nisha Mahey

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

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology & Antimicrobial Research Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39-A, Chandigarh, India, Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

Rushikesh Tambat

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Affiliation Clinical Microbiology & Antimicrobial Research Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39-A, Chandigarh, India

Ritu Kalia

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Natural Products, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Mohali, India

Rajnita Ingavale

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliation Department of Natural Products, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Mohali, India

Akriti Kodesia

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliations Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, Structural Biology Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Nishtha Chandal

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology & Antimicrobial Research Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39-A, Chandigarh, India, Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

Srajan Kapoor

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Structural Biology Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Dipesh Kumar Verma

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Current address: Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Chhatrapati Shahu ji Maharaj University, Kanpur, India

Affiliation Structural Biology Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Krishan Gopal Thakur

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Structural Biology Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

Sanjay Jachak

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

sjachak11@gmail.com (SJ); hemraj@imtech.res.in (HN)

Affiliation Department of Natural Products, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Mohali, India

Hemraj Nandanwar

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

sjachak11@gmail.com (SJ); hemraj@imtech.res.in (HN)

Affiliations Clinical Microbiology & Antimicrobial Research Laboratory, CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39-A, Chandigarh, India, Academy of Scientific & Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

Competing Interests

N.M., R.T., R.K., R.I., N.C., S.J., and H.N. are inventors for the patent application of the EPIs disclosed in this study (Indian provisional patent Application no. 202011054425). The remaining authors declare no conflict of interest.