About the Authors

Zhenyang Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenyang Zhao, Yan Chen

Affiliation Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Yan Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenyang Zhao, Yan Chen

Affiliation Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jian Wang

Affiliation Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Paul Sternberg

Affiliation Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Michael L. Freeman

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Hans E. Grossniklaus

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jiyang Cai

jiyang.cai@vanderbilt.edu

Affiliation Vanderbilt Eye Institute, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZZ YC PS MF HG JC. Performed the experiments: ZZ YC JW JC. Analyzed the data: ZZ YC PS MF HG JC. Wrote the paper: ZZ YC PS MF HG JC.