About the Authors

Meredith S. Gregory

Affiliation The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Caroline G. Hackett

Affiliation The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Emma F. Abernathy

Affiliation The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Karen S. Lee

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rebecca R. Saff

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Andreas M. Hohlbaum

Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Krishna-sulayman L. Moody

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Maura W. Hobson

Affiliations The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Alexander Jones

Affiliation The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paraskevi Kolovou

Affiliation The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Saoussen Karray

Affiliation Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM) Unite 580, Hopital Necker, Paris, France

Andrea Giani

Affiliation Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Simon W. M. John

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Dong Feng Chen

Affiliation The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Ann Marshak-Rothstein

Contributed equally to this work with: Ann Marshak-Rothstein, Bruce R. Ksander

ann.rothstein@umassmed.edu (AMR); bruce.ksander@schepens.harvard.edu (BRK)

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bruce R. Ksander

Contributed equally to this work with: Ann Marshak-Rothstein, Bruce R. Ksander

ann.rothstein@umassmed.edu (AMR); bruce.ksander@schepens.harvard.edu (BRK)

Affiliation The Schepens Eye Research Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BRK AM-R MSG. Performed the experiments: MSG CGH EFA KSL RRS AMH K-sLM MWH AJ PK AG. Analyzed the data: MSG AG BRK AMR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK SWMJ. Wrote the manuscript: MSG AM-R BRK. Consulted on experimental design: SWMJ DFC.