About the Authors

Narsing A. Rao

nrao@usc.edu

Affiliation Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Sindhu Saraswathy

Affiliation Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Geeta Pararajasegaram

Affiliation Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Suraj P. Bhat

Affiliation Jules Stein Eye Institute, Brain Research Institute and Molecular Biology Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS NR GP SB. Performed the experiments: SS. Analyzed the data: SS NR GP SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NR SS. Wrote the paper: SS NR SB.