It has come to our attention that Dr. Sreenivas Gannavaram does not meet criteria necessary to be listed as an author, as specified by Frontiers; therefore, he has been removed from the authors' list and mentioned Acknowledgments instead.
The updated Author Contributions statement and Acknowledgments are below.
The authors apologize for this error and state that it does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way.
The original article has been updated.
Author contributions
NT, VK, MG, and AS: designed and performed the experiments and co-wrote the MS. SS and VS: assisted in design of the study, statistical analysis, and MS writing. RS: conceived, designed, directed, and supervised the complete study.
Conflict of interest statement
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Acknowledgments
Financial support from Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi (SB/SO/HS/0091/2013) is greatly acknowledged. NT and MG are thankful to University Grants Commission (UGC) & BHU for their research fellowships and VK is thankful to DST (YSS/2015/000687) for providing fellowship. The technical support received from V. K. Singh, Bioinformatics Centre, School of Biotechnology, Banaras Hindu University is greatly acknowledged. We thank Dr. Sreenivas Gannavaram, CBER, Food and Drug Administration, USA for his valuable suggestions.