About the Authors

Blanca Arango-Gonzalez

Contributed equally to this work with: Blanca Arango-Gonzalez, Dragana Trifunović

francois.paquet-durand@klinikum.uni-tuebingen.de (FDP); blanca.arango-gonzalez@klinikum.uni-tuebingen.de (BAG)

Affiliation Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Dragana Trifunović

Contributed equally to this work with: Blanca Arango-Gonzalez, Dragana Trifunović

Affiliation Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Ayse Sahaboglu

Affiliation Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Katharina Kranz

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

Stylianos Michalakis

Affiliation Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich and Department of Pharmacy - Center for Drug Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Pietro Farinelli

Affiliations Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

Susanne Koch

Affiliation Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich and Department of Pharmacy - Center for Drug Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Fred Koch

Affiliation Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich and Department of Pharmacy - Center for Drug Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Sandra Cottet

Affiliation Institute for Research in Ophthalmology, Sion, Switzerland

Ulrike Janssen-Bienhold

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

Karin Dedek

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

Martin Biel

Affiliation Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich and Department of Pharmacy - Center for Drug Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

Eberhart Zrenner

Affiliations Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Thomas Euler

Affiliations Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Per Ekström

Affiliation Division of Ophthalmology, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden

Marius Ueffing

Affiliation Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

François Paquet-Durand

francois.paquet-durand@klinikum.uni-tuebingen.de (FDP); blanca.arango-gonzalez@klinikum.uni-tuebingen.de (BAG)

Affiliation Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BAG FPD. Performed the experiments: BAG DT AS KK PF FPD. Analyzed the data: BAG DT AS KK SC PF KD EZ TE MU FPD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BAG SM SK FK SC UJB KD MB TE PE FPD. Wrote the paper: BAG DT FPD.