About the Authors

Anastasios Georgiadis

Contributed equally to this work with: Anastasios Georgiadis, Marion Tschernutter

Affiliations Department of Genetics, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Molecular Immunology Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Marion Tschernutter

Contributed equally to this work with: Anastasios Georgiadis, Marion Tschernutter

Affiliation Department of Genetics, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

James W. B. Bainbridge

Affiliation Department of Genetics, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Kamaljit S. Balaggan

Affiliation Department of Genetics, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Freya Mowat

Affiliation Department of Genetics, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Emma L. West

Affiliation Department of Genetics, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Peter M. G. Munro

Affiliation Electron Microscopy Unit, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Adrian J. Thrasher

Affiliation Molecular Immunology Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Karl Matter

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Maria S. Balda

m.balda@ucl.ac.uk (MSB); r.ali@ucl.ac.uk (RRA)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Robin R. Ali

m.balda@ucl.ac.uk (MSB); r.ali@ucl.ac.uk (RRA)

These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Genetics, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, United Kingdom, Molecular Immunology Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG MT AJT KM MSB RRA. Performed the experiments: AG MT JWBB KSB FM ELW PMGM. Analyzed the data: AG MT KM MSB RRA. Wrote the paper: AG MT KM MSB RRA.