About the Authors

Wambui S. Wandu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wambui S. Wandu, Cuiyan Tan, Osato Ogbeifun

‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, United States of America

Cuiyan Tan

Contributed equally to this work with: Wambui S. Wandu, Cuiyan Tan, Osato Ogbeifun

‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, United States of America

Osato Ogbeifun

Contributed equally to this work with: Wambui S. Wandu, Cuiyan Tan, Osato Ogbeifun

‡ These authors are first authors on this work.

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, United States of America

Barbara P. Vistica

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, United States of America

Guangpu Shi

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, United States of America

Samuel J. H. Hinshaw

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, United States of America

Chengsong Xie

Affiliation Transgenic Section, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, United States of America

Xi Chen

Affiliation Transgenic Section, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, United States of America

Dennis M. Klinman

Affiliation Cancer and Inflammation Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD, 21702, United States of America

Huaibin Cai

Affiliation Transgenic Section, Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, United States of America

Igal Gery

geryi@nei.nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Immunology, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 20892, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CT BPV OO WSW IG. Performed the experiments: OO CT BPV WSW SJHH IG. Analyzed the data: SJHH CT GS WSW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HC CX DMK XC. Wrote the paper: WSW CT SJHH IG DMK.