About the Authors

Xiaolin Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaolin Huang, Li Wang

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Li Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaolin Huang, Li Wang

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

He Zhang

Affiliations Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Stanford University Medical School, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Haibo Wang

Affiliations Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Stanford University Medical School, Palo Alto, California, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xiaoping Zhao

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Guanxiang Qian

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Jifan Hu

Affiliation Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Stanford University Medical School, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Shengfang Ge

fanxq@sh163.net (XF); geshengfang@sjtu.edu.cn (SG)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Xianqun Fan

fanxq@sh163.net (XF); geshengfang@sjtu.edu.cn (SG)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XLH LW GXQ SFG XQF. Performed the experiments: XLH LW. Analyzed the data: XLH LW HZ HBW JFH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ HBW XPZ XQF. Wrote the paper: XLH SFG.