About the Authors

Xiaoqin Liu

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Zhijing Zhang

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Christophe P. Ribelayga

Christophe.P.Ribelayga@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Medical School, Houston, Texas, United States of America, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XL ZZ CPR. Performed the experiments: XL ZZ CPR. Analyzed the data: XL ZZ CPR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XL ZZ CPR. Wrote the paper: XL ZZ CPR.