About the Authors

James Trigilio

Contributed equally to this work with: James Trigilio, Thessicar E. Antoine

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Thessicar E. Antoine

Contributed equally to this work with: James Trigilio, Thessicar E. Antoine

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Ingo Paulowicz

Affiliation Department of Engineering, Institute for Materials Science, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Yogendra K. Mishra

Affiliation Department of Engineering, Institute for Materials Science, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Rainer Adelung

Affiliation Department of Engineering, Institute for Materials Science, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Deepak Shukla

dshukla@uic.edu

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JT TEA IP YKM RA DS. Performed the experiments: JT TEA IP. Analyzed the data: JT TEA IP YKM RA DS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RA DS. Wrote the paper: JT TEA IP DS.