About the Authors

Crystal L. Woodard

Contributed equally to this work with: Crystal L. Woodard, C. Rory Goodwin

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

C. Rory Goodwin

Contributed equally to this work with: Crystal L. Woodard, C. Rory Goodwin

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jun Wan

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Shuli Xia

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Robert Newman

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jianfei Hu

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jin Zhang

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

S. Diane Hayward

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jiang Qian

Affiliations Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

John Laterra

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Heng Zhu

Heng.Zhu@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, High Throughput Biology Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CLW CRG SDH JL HZ. Performed the experiments: CLW CRG JW SX RN JH. Analyzed the data: CLW CRG JW RN JH JZ SDH JQ JL HZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CRG JZ SDH JQ JL HZ. Wrote the paper: CLW CRG JW SDH JQ JL HZ. Designed the software database used in analysis: JW JH JQ.