About the Authors

Dongsheng Yan

dnaprotein@yahoo.com.cn (DY); tulili@mail.eye.ac.cn (LT)

Affiliations School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Xiang Da Dong

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Stamford Hospital – Affiliate of Columbia University, Stamford, Connecticut, United States of America

Xiaoyan Chen

Affiliations School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Shasha Yao

Affiliations School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Lihua Wang

Affiliations School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Jiao Wang

Affiliations School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Chao Wang

Affiliations School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Dan-Ning Hu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, Tissue Culture Center, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York Medical College, New York, New York, United States of America

Jia Qu

Affiliations School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

LiLi Tu

dnaprotein@yahoo.com.cn (DY); tulili@mail.eye.ac.cn (LT)

Affiliations School of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China, State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DY LT. Performed the experiments: DY XC SY LW JW CW. Analyzed the data: DY XDD LT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: D-NH JQ. Wrote the paper: DY XDD LT.