About the Authors

Jie Lin

Affiliations Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Centre for Bioimaging Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Hu Chen

Affiliation Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Peter Dröge

PDroge@ntu.edu.sg (PD); phyyj@nus.edu.sg (JY)

Affiliation Division of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

Jie Yan

PDroge@ntu.edu.sg (PD); phyyj@nus.edu.sg (JY)

Affiliations Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, Centre for Bioimaging Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JY PD JL. Performed the experiments: JL. Analyzed the data: JL HC JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PD. Wrote the paper: JY JL PD.