About the Authors

Sven K Vogel

Contributed equally to this work with: Sven K Vogel, Nenad Pavin

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

Nenad Pavin

Contributed equally to this work with: Sven K Vogel, Nenad Pavin

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany , Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Nicola Maghelli

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

Frank Jülicher

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

Iva M Tolić-Nørrelykke

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: tolic@mpi-cbg.de

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

SKV, NP, FJ, and IMT-N conceived and designed the experiments. SKV performed the experiments. SKV, NP, NM, and IMT-N analyzed the data. SKV, NP, FJ, and IMT-N wrote the paper.