About the Authors

Vithiyanjali Sothilingam

Vithiyanjali.Sothilingam@med.uni-tuebingen.de

Affiliation Division of Ocular Neurodegeneration, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Centre for Ophthalmology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Schleichstr. 4/3, D-72076, Tübingen, Germany

Stylianos Michalakis

Affiliation Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich CIPSM, Department of Pharmacy-Center for Drug Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Butenandtstr. 5–13, D-81377, München, Germany

Marina Garcia Garrido

Affiliation Division of Ocular Neurodegeneration, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Centre for Ophthalmology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Schleichstr. 4/3, D-72076, Tübingen, Germany

Martin Biel

Affiliation Center for Integrated Protein Science Munich CIPSM, Department of Pharmacy-Center for Drug Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Butenandtstr. 5–13, D-81377, München, Germany

Naoyuki Tanimoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Naoyuki Tanimoto, Mathias W. Seeliger

Affiliation Division of Ocular Neurodegeneration, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Centre for Ophthalmology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Schleichstr. 4/3, D-72076, Tübingen, Germany

Mathias W. Seeliger

Contributed equally to this work with: Naoyuki Tanimoto, Mathias W. Seeliger

Affiliation Division of Ocular Neurodegeneration, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, Centre for Ophthalmology, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Schleichstr. 4/3, D-72076, Tübingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VS NT MWS. Performed the experiments: VS NT MGG. Analyzed the data: VS NT MGG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM MB. Wrote the paper: VS NT MWS.