About the Authors

Julia Rausenberger

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Rausenberger, Andrea Hussong

Current address: Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Basel, Switzerland

Affiliations Centre for Biological Systems Analysis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Institute of Biology II, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Andrea Hussong

Contributed equally to this work with: Julia Rausenberger, Andrea Hussong

Affiliation Institute of Biology II, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Stefan Kircher

Affiliation Institute of Biology II, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Daniel Kirchenbauer

Affiliation Institute of Biology II, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Jens Timmer

Affiliations Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Ferenc Nagy

Affiliations Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Center, Szeged, Hungary, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Eberhard Schäfer

eberhard.schaefer@biologie.uni-freiburg.de (ES); christian.fleck@fdm.uni-freiburg.de (CF)

Affiliation Institute of Biology II, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Christian Fleck

eberhard.schaefer@biologie.uni-freiburg.de (ES); christian.fleck@fdm.uni-freiburg.de (CF)

Affiliations Centre for Biological Systems Analysis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AH SK ES. Performed the experiments: AH. Analyzed the data: JR AH SK ES CF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SK DK JT FN. Wrote the paper: JR FN ES CF. Conceived and designed the mathematical modeling: CF JR. Performed the mathematical modeling: JR. Performed the FRAP experiments (Figure 2): SK. Performed the fluorescence microscopy experiment (Figure 3): DK.