About the Authors

Andrew Mugler

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew Mugler, Mark Kittisopikul

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Mark Kittisopikul

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrew Mugler, Mark Kittisopikul

Affiliations Department of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, California, United States of America

Luke Hayden

Affiliations Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America, Division of Natural Sciences, Indiana Wesleyan University, Marion, Indiana, United States of America

Jintao Liu

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, California, United States of America

Chris H. Wiggins

Affiliation Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Gürol M. Süel

gsuel@ucsd.edu (GMS); awalczak@lpt.ens.fr (AMW)

Affiliation Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, California, United States of America

Aleksandra M. Walczak

gsuel@ucsd.edu (GMS); awalczak@lpt.ens.fr (AMW)

Affiliation Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie and École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM MK CHW GMS AMW. Performed the experiments: AM MK LH JL. Analyzed the data: AM MK LH GMS AMW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM MK CHW GMS AMW. Wrote the paper: AM MK LH JL GMS AMW.