About the Authors

Li Jiang

li.jiang@hsc.utah.edu (LJ); wbaehr@hsc.utah.edu (WB)

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Utah Health Science Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Tansy Z. Li

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Utah Health Science Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Shannon E. Boye

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

William W. Hauswirth

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jeanne M. Frederick

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Utah Health Science Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Wolfgang Baehr

li.jiang@hsc.utah.edu (LJ); wbaehr@hsc.utah.edu (WB)

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Utah Health Science Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah Health Science Center, Salt Lake City Utah, United States of America

Competing Interests

WWH and the University of Florida at Gainesville have a financial interest in the use of AAV therapies, and own equity in a company (AGTC, Inc.) that may commercialize portions of this work. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LJ WB. Performed the experiments: LJ TZL JMF. Analyzed the data: JL JMF WB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SEB WWH. Wrote the paper: LJ WB.