About the Authors

Courtney Mankus

Contributed equally to this work with: Courtney Mankus, Celeste Rich

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, ECI Biotech Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Celeste Rich

Contributed equally to this work with: Courtney Mankus, Celeste Rich

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

Martin Minns

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

Vickery Trinkaus-Randall

vickery@bu.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Ophthalmology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CM CR MM VT-R. Performed the experiments: CM CR MM. Analyzed the data: CM CR MM VT-R. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VT-R CR. Wrote the paper: VT-R CR CM.