About the Authors

Philipp Niethammer

Contributed equally to this work with: Philipp Niethammer, Iva Kronja

Affiliations Cell Biology and Biophysics Department, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany , Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Iva Kronja

Contributed equally to this work with: Philipp Niethammer, Iva Kronja

Affiliation Cell Biology and Biophysics Department, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Stefanie Kandels-Lewis

Affiliation Cell Biology and Biophysics Department, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Sonja Rybina

Affiliation Cell Biology and Biophysics Department, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Philippe Bastiaens

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bastiaen@embl.de (PB); karsenti@embl.de (EK)

Affiliation Cell Biology and Biophysics Department, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Eric Karsenti

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: bastiaen@embl.de (PB); karsenti@embl.de (EK)

Affiliation Cell Biology and Biophysics Department, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

PN, IK, EK, and PB conceived and designed the experiments. PN and IK performed the experiments. PN, IK, PB, and EK analyzed the data. PN, SKL, and SR contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. PN, IK, PB, and EK wrote the paper.