Chemicals, reagents, antibodies and other materials
The source of chemicals, reagents, antibodies and other resources is given in Table-1. The crocetin used in this study was synthesized and characterized in our lab (Reddy, Bharate, Vishwakarma & Bharate, 2020) (Supplementary Figure S1). Here, we have used the term crocetin instead of trans-croceitn, which constitutes 98% of the cis and trans mixture of crocetin.