About the Authors

Mathieu Marella

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Byoung Boo Seo

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Biju B. Thomas

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

Akemi Matsuno-Yagi

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Takao Yagi

yagi@scripps.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM AMY TY. Performed the experiments: MM BBS. Analyzed the data: MM BBS BT AMY TY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM BT. Wrote the paper: MM AMY TY.