About the Authors

Marion E. Cahill

Contributed equally to this work with: Marion E. Cahill, Kathryn Chmelik

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America, Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Kathryn Chmelik

Contributed equally to this work with: Marion E. Cahill, Kathryn Chmelik

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Brooke A. Brothers

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Madyson E. Ashcraft

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Tongju Guan

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Artjola Puja

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Yinxiao Xiang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Lee M. Shaw

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Jianhai Du

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Wen-Tao Deng

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

wen.deng@hsc.wvu.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.