About the Authors

Meng Jin

Affiliations Laboratory of Developmental Immunology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Barbara Jusiak

Affiliation Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Zengliang Bai

gmardon@bcm.edu (GM); zengliangbai@sdu.edu.cn (ZB)

Affiliation Laboratory of Developmental Immunology, School of Life Science, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, People’s Republic of China

Graeme Mardon

gmardon@bcm.edu (GM); zengliangbai@sdu.edu.cn (ZB)

Affiliations Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GM MJ BJ ZLB. Performed the experiments: MJ. Analyzed the data: GM MJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GM MJ. Wrote the paper: GM MJ BJ.