About the Authors

Folami Lamoke

Affiliations Dept. of Ophthalmology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Sean Shaw

Affiliation Dept. of Ophthalmology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Jianghe Yuan

Affiliation Dept. of Ophthalmology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Sudha Ananth

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Michael Duncan

Affiliation Dept. of Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Pamela Martin

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Manuela Bartoli

mbartoli@gru.edu

Affiliation Dept. of Ophthalmology, Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FL MD PM MB. Performed the experiments: FL SS JY SA PM. Analyzed the data: FL MD PM MB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FL MD PM MB. Wrote the paper: FL PM MD MB.