About the Authors

Dongwook Lee

Affiliations The Sophie and Arthur Laboratory for Optic Nerve Biology, Hamilton Glaucoma Center and Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Research Institute of Clinical Medicine of Chonbuk National University-Biomedical Research Institute, Chonbuk National University Hospital, Jeonju, Jeonbuk, Republic of Korea

Keun-Young Kim

Affiliation Center for Research on Biological Systems, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, and Department of Neuroscience, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

You Hyun Noh

Affiliation The Sophie and Arthur Laboratory for Optic Nerve Biology, Hamilton Glaucoma Center and Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Stephen Chai

Affiliation The Sophie and Arthur Laboratory for Optic Nerve Biology, Hamilton Glaucoma Center and Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

James D. Lindsey

Affiliation The Sophie and Arthur Laboratory for Optic Nerve Biology, Hamilton Glaucoma Center and Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Mark H. Ellisman

Affiliation Center for Research on Biological Systems, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, and Department of Neuroscience, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Robert N. Weinreb

Affiliation The Sophie and Arthur Laboratory for Optic Nerve Biology, Hamilton Glaucoma Center and Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Won-Kyu Ju

danielju@glaucoma.ucsd.edu

Affiliation The Sophie and Arthur Laboratory for Optic Nerve Biology, Hamilton Glaucoma Center and Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DL W-KJ. Performed the experiments: DL K-YK YHN SC W-KJ. Analyzed the data: DL K-YK YHN SC W-KJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JDL MHE RNW W-KJ. Wrote the paper: DL W-KJ.