About the Authors

Alexandra Saliba

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandra Saliba, Yunpeng Du

Affiliations Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Catholic University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil

Yunpeng Du

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexandra Saliba, Yunpeng Du

Affiliation Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Haitao Liu

Affiliation Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Shyam Patel

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Robin Roberts

Affiliation Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Bruce A. Berkowitz

Affiliations Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Timothy S. Kern

tsk@case.edu

Affiliations Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Cleveland Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center, Research Service 151, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TK BAB. Performed the experiments: AS YD HL SP RR. Analyzed the data: TK YD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BAB. Wrote the paper: TK.