About the Authors

Harshini Chakravarthy

Contributed equally to this work with: Harshini Chakravarthy, Eleni Beli

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Eleni Beli

Contributed equally to this work with: Harshini Chakravarthy, Eleni Beli

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Svetlana Navitskaya

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Sandra O’Reilly

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Qi Wang

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Nermin Kady

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Chao Huang

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Maria B. Grant

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Julia V. Busik

busik@msu.edu

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JB MBG EB. Performed the experiments: HC EB SN SO QW NK CH. Analyzed the data: HC EB JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JB MBG. Wrote the paper: HC EB JB.