About the Authors

Mamoru Kamoshita

Affiliations Laboratory of Retinal Cell Biology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Yoko Ozawa

ozawa@a5.keio.jp

Affiliations Laboratory of Retinal Cell Biology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Shunsuke Kubota

Affiliations Laboratory of Retinal Cell Biology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Seiji Miyake

Affiliation Laboratory of Retinal Cell Biology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Chiduru Tsuda

Affiliation Laboratory of Retinal Cell Biology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Norihiro Nagai

Affiliations Laboratory of Retinal Cell Biology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Kenya Yuki

Affiliations Laboratory of Retinal Cell Biology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Shigeto Shimmura

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Kazuo Umezawa

Affiliation Department of Molecular Target Medicine Screening, Aichi Medical University School of Medicine, Nagakute, Aichi, Japan

Kazuo Tsubota

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YO MK SS KT. Performed the experiments: MK SM CT KY. Analyzed the data: MK SK NN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KU. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: MK YO.