About the Authors

Sonali Nashine

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States of America

Yogesh Bhootada

Affiliation Department of Vision Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Alfred S. Lewin

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Marina Gorbatyuk

mgortk@uab.edu

Affiliation Department of Vision Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Provided comments: AL. Conceived and designed the experiments: SN YB MG. Performed the experiments: SN YB. Analyzed the data: MG AL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MG. Wrote the paper: MG.