About the Authors

Alexander Zumdieck

Current address: Physicochimie Curie (CNRS-UMR 168), Institut Curie, Section de Recherche, Paris, France

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

Karsten Kruse

Current address: Theoretische Physik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

Henrik Bringmann

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Anthony A. Hyman

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Frank Jülicher

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: julicher@pks.mpg.de

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AH HB. Performed the experiments: HB. Analyzed the data: AZ. Wrote the paper: FJ AZ KK. Other: Developed the theory: FJ AZ KK.