About the Authors

Mei Chen

Affiliation Centre for Vision and Vascular Science, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Jose R. Hombrebueno

Affiliation Centre for Vision and Vascular Science, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Chang Luo

Affiliation Centre for Vision and Vascular Science, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Rosana Penalva

Affiliation Centre for Vision and Vascular Science, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Jiawu Zhao

Affiliation Centre for Vision and Vascular Science, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Liza Colhoun

Affiliation Centre for Vision and Vascular Science, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Sudha Pirya Soundara Pandi

Affiliation Centre for Vision and Vascular Science, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

John V. Forrester

Affiliation Ocular Immunology Group, Section of Immunology and Infection, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

Heping Xu

heping.xu@qub.ac.uk

Affiliation Centre for Vision and Vascular Science, School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MC HX. Performed the experiments: MC CL RP JRH JZ LC SPSP. Analyzed the data: MC JVF HX. Wrote the paper: MC JVF HX.