About the Authors

Galina Dvoriantchikova

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Dmitry Ivanov

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

David Barakat

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Alexander Grinberg

Affiliation National Institute of Child Health and Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Rong Wen

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Vladlen Z. Slepak

Affiliation Department of Molecular Pharmacology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Valery I. Shestopalov

vshestopalov@med.miami.edu

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GD VIS VZS DI RW. Performed the experiments: DB AG RW VZS VIS. Analyzed the data: GD DI DB RW VZS VIS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DI AG RW VZS VIS. Wrote the paper: GD DI DB RW VZS VIS.