About the Authors

Bingrong Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Bingrong Tang, Jingjing Cai

Affiliations School of Optometry and Ophthalmology and Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China, State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health and Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China

Jingjing Cai

Contributed equally to this work with: Bingrong Tang, Jingjing Cai

Affiliations School of Optometry and Ophthalmology and Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China, State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health and Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China

Lin Sun

Affiliations School of Optometry and Ophthalmology and Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China, State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health and Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China

Yiping Li

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, P.R. China

Jia Qu

Affiliations School of Optometry and Ophthalmology and Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China, State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health and Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China

Barbara Joy Snider

Affiliation Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Shengzhou Wu

wszlab@mail.eye.ac.cn

Affiliations School of Optometry and Ophthalmology and Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China, State Key Laboratory Cultivation Base and Key Laboratory of Vision Science, Ministry of Health and Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology and Optometry, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SW. Performed the experiments: BRT JJC LS. Analyzed the data: SW BRT JJC LS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW YL JQ. Wrote the paper: SW BJS.