About the Authors

Hanjuan Shao

Current address: Anatomy & Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sherri-Gae Scott

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Chiaki Nakata

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Abdel R. Hamad

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Shukti Chakravarti

schakra1@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Shukti Chakravarti is an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Performed the keratitis experiments: HJS. Performed the flow cytometry experiments: CN HJS S-GS. Conceived and designed the experiments: SC HJS ARH. Analyzed the data: SC ARH. Wrote the paper: SC HJS S-GS.