This work was supported by the Ministry of Innovation,Science and Research the state of North Rhine-Westphalia,Germany within the framework of the NRW-Strategieprojekt BioSC(No.313/323-400-00213);together with the“European Regional Development Fund(EFRE)”,Project“Clus-ter Industrial Biotechnology(CLIB)Kompetenzzentrum Biotechnologie(CKB)”(34.EFRE-0300095/1703FI04);Financial support by the Scien-tific and Technological Research Council of Turkey(TUBITAK)2219-International Research Fellowship Programme for Saadet Alpdagtas is gratefully acknowledged.
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