About the Authors

Andrea Caceres

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Caceres, Fu Shang

Affiliation Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research, U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA), Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Fu Shang

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea Caceres, Fu Shang

Affiliation Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research, U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA), Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Eric Wawrousek

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Biology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Qing Liu

Affiliation Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research, U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA), Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Orna Avidan

Affiliation Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research, U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA), Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ales Cvekl

Affiliation The Departments of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Ying Yang

Affiliation The Departments of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Genetics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Aydin Haririnia

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Biomolecular Structure and Organization, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Andrew Storaska

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Biomolecular Structure and Organization, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

David Fushman

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Biomolecular Structure and Organization, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Jer Kuszak

Affiliation Departments of Ophthalmology and Pathology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Edward Dudek

Affiliation Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research, U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA), Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Donald Smith

Affiliation Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research, U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA), Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Allen Taylor

allen.taylor@tufts.edu

Affiliation Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research, U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (USDA HNRCA), Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FS AT. Performed the experiments: AC EW QL OA YY AH AS JK ED DS. Analyzed the data: AC FS EW OA DF JK ED AT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EW AC YY JK. Wrote the paper: AC FS AC DF JK AT.