About the Authors

Aihua Hou

Contributed equally to this work with: Aihua Hou, Wanwen Lan

hou.aihua@seri.com.sg (AH); Louis.tong.h.t@snec.com.sg (LT)

Affiliation Ocular Surface Research Group, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore

Wanwen Lan

Contributed equally to this work with: Aihua Hou, Wanwen Lan

Affiliation Ocular Surface Research Group, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore

Kai Pong Law

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Ser Chin Jasmine Khoo

Affiliation Ocular Surface Research Group, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore

Min Qi Tin

Affiliation Ocular Surface Research Group, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore

Yoon Pin Lim

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Louis Tong

hou.aihua@seri.com.sg (AH); Louis.tong.h.t@snec.com.sg (LT)

Affiliations Ocular Surface Research Group, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore, Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore, Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AH LT YPL. Performed the experiments: AH WWL KPL SCJK MQT. Analyzed the data: AH WWL KPL YPL LT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AH LT YPL. Wrote the paper: AH WWL YPL LT.