About the Authors

Dongchun Liang

Affiliation Doheny Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90033, United States of America

Aijun Zuo

Affiliation Doheny Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90033, United States of America

Ronglan Zhao

Affiliations Doheny Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90033, United States of America, Department of Medical Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics in University of Shandong, Weifang Medical University, Weifang 261053, Shandong, China

Hui Shao

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kentucky Lions Eye Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, United States of America

Willi K. Born

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Research, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado 80206, United States of America

Rebecca L. O'Brien

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Research, National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado 80206, United States of America

Henry J. Kaplan

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Kentucky Lions Eye Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40202, United States of America

Deming Sun

dsun@doheny.org

Affiliation Doheny Eye Institute and Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90033, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have no financial interests to report.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DS DL HS HK WB RO. Performed the experiments: DL AZ RZ. Analyzed the data: DS DL AZ RZ WB RO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DS DL AZ RZ WB RO. Wrote the paper: DS DL WB RO HS HK.