About the Authors

Cintia S. De Paiva

cintiadp@bcm.tmc.edu

Affiliation Ocular Surface Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Eugene A. Volpe

Affiliation Ocular Surface Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Niral B. Gandhi

Affiliation Ocular Surface Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xiaobo Zhang

Affiliation Ocular Surface Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Xiaofen Zheng

Affiliations Ocular Surface Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Shanxi Eye Hospital, Taiyuan, China

John D. Pitcher III

Affiliation Ocular Surface Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

William J. Farley

Affiliation Ocular Surface Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Michael E. Stern

Affiliation Ocular Surface Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Jerry Y. Niederkorn

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

De-Quan Li

Affiliation Ocular Surface Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Richard A. Flavell

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Stephen C. Pflugfelder

Affiliation Ocular Surface Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Cullen Eye Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CSDP JYN RAF SCP MES D-QL. Performed the experiments: CSDP EAV NBG X. Zhang X. Zheng JDP WJF. Analyzed the data: CSDP JYN RAF SCP MES D-QL EAV NBG X. Zhang X. Zheng JDP WJF. Wrote the paper: CSDP JYN RAF MES D-QL SCP.