About the Authors

Kalvin J. Gregory

Contributed equally to this work with: Kalvin J. Gregory, Bing Zhao

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Bing Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Kalvin J. Gregory, Bing Zhao

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Diane R. Bielenberg

Affiliation Vascular Biology Program, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sami Dridi

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Jason Wu

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Weihua Jiang

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Bin Huang

Affiliation Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Steven Pirie-Shepherd

Affiliation CovX, San Diego, California, United States of America

Michael Fannon

michael.fannon@uky.edu

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MF. Performed the experiments: KJG BZ SD JW WJ. Analyzed the data: SD BH SPS MF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DB. Wrote the paper: MF.