About the Authors

Duane J. Oswald

Contributed equally to this work with: Duane J. Oswald, Albert Lee

Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry and Ophthalmology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Albert Lee

Contributed equally to this work with: Duane J. Oswald, Albert Lee

Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry and Ophthalmology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Monique Trinidad

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

Cheryl Chi

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

Ruiyi Ren

Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry and Ophthalmology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Celeste B. Rich

Affiliation Departments of Biochemistry and Ophthalmology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Vickery Trinkaus-Randall

vickery@bu.edu

Affiliations Departments of Biochemistry and Ophthalmology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 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: DO AL CC CR VTR. Performed the experiments: DO AL CC MT RR CR. Analyzed the data: DO AL CC MT CR VTR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VTR. Wrote the paper: DO AL CC CR VTR.