About the Authors

Ram H. Nagaraj

ram.nagaraj@case.edu (RHN); abiswas@iitbbs.ac.in (AB)

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Alok Kumar Panda

Affiliation School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

Shilpa Shanthakumar

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Puttur Santhoshkumar

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America

NagaRekha Pasupuleti

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Benlian Wang

Affiliation Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Ashis Biswas

ram.nagaraj@case.edu (RHN); abiswas@iitbbs.ac.in (AB)

Affiliation School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RHN AB. Performed the experiments: RHN AKP SS PS NP BW AB. Analyzed the data: RHN PS AB. Wrote the paper: RHN PS BW AB.