About the Authors

Xiaoli Guo

Affiliation Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Tokyo, Japan

Chikako Harada

Affiliation Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Tokyo, Japan

Kazuhiko Namekata

Affiliation Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshinori Mitamura

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Hiroshi Yoshida

Affiliation Department of Neuro-ophthalmology, Tokyo Metropolitan Neurological Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Yoh Matsumoto

Affiliation Department of Molecular Neuropathology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Tokyo, Japan

Takayuki Harada

harada-tk@igakuken.or.jp

Affiliations Department of Molecular Neurobiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Neuro-ophthalmology, Tokyo Metropolitan Neurological Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XG TH. Performed the experiments: XG CH KN. Analyzed the data: XG CH KN YM HY YM TH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YM HY YM. Wrote the paper: XG CH KN TH.