About the Authors

Sameer D. Salem

sameersalem@yahoo.com (SDS); sekaran@um.edu.my (SM)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Riyadh Saif-Ali

Affiliations Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Sana’a University, Sana’a, Yemen

Ikram S. Ismail

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya Medical Centre, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Zaid Al-Hamodi

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Rozaida Poh

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sekaran Muniandy

sameersalem@yahoo.com (SDS); sekaran@um.edu.my (SM)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SDS RSA SM. Performed the experiments: SDS. Analyzed the data: SDS RSA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SDS ISI ZA RP. Wrote the paper: SDS SM ISI.