About the Authors

Hardeep Kataria

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India

Renu Wadhwa

kgurcharan.neuro@yahoo.com (GK) (RW); renu-wadhwa@aist.go.jp (RW) (GK)

Affiliation National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan

Sunil C. Kaul

Affiliation National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan

Gurcharan Kaur

kgurcharan.neuro@yahoo.com (GK) (RW); renu-wadhwa@aist.go.jp (RW) (GK)

Affiliation Department of Biotechnology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GK HK RW SK. Performed the experiments: HK. Analyzed the data: HK GK RW SK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GK. Wrote the paper: GK HK RW SK.