About the Authors

Dhong Hyun Lee

Affiliation Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, Ophthalmology Research, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Burns & Allen Research Institute, CSMC – SSB3, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Mandana Zandian

Affiliation Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, Ophthalmology Research, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Burns & Allen Research Institute, CSMC – SSB3, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Jane Kuo

Affiliation Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, Ophthalmology Research, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Burns & Allen Research Institute, CSMC – SSB3, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Kevin R. Mott

Affiliation Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, Ophthalmology Research, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Burns & Allen Research Institute, CSMC – SSB3, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Shuang Chen

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, CSMC, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Moshe Arditi

Affiliation Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, CSMC, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Homayon Ghiasi

ghiasih@CSHS.org

Affiliation Center for Neurobiology and Vaccine Development, Ophthalmology Research, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Burns & Allen Research Institute, CSMC – SSB3, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: HG. Data curation: DHL MZ JK KRM HG. Formal analysis: DHL MZ JK HG. Funding acquisition: HG. Investigation: DHL MZ JK KRM. Methodology: HG. Project administration: HG. Resources: SC MA. Software: DHL MZ JK HG. Supervision: HG. Validation: DHL MZ JK KRM. Visualization: HG. Writing – original draft: DHL HG. Writing – review & editing: DHL HG.