About the Authors

Felix Margadant

felix@margadant.ch

Affiliation Research Centre of Excellence in Mechanobiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Li Li Chew

Affiliation Research Centre of Excellence in Mechanobiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Xian Hu

Affiliation Research Centre of Excellence in Mechanobiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Hanry Yu

Affiliation Research Centre of Excellence in Mechanobiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Neil Bate

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Xian Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Michael Sheetz

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: FM LC XH XZ MS. Performed the experiments: LC XH XZ. Analyzed the data: FM MS NB LC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MS HY. Wrote the paper: MS FM.