About the Authors

Irina Surgucheva

Affiliations Retinal Biology Research Laboratory, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Sumedha Gunewardena

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

H. Shanker Rao

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Andrei Surguchov

asurguchov@kumc.edu

Affiliations Retinal Biology Research Laboratory, Veterans Administration Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IS AS SG. Performed the experiments: IS HSR SG. Analyzed the data: SG HSR AS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IS AS. Wrote the paper: AS SG.