About the Authors

Mike Bonny

Affiliation Theoretische Physik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany

Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich

Affiliations Max-Planck-Institut für Zellbiologie und Genetik, Dresden, Germany, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany

Martin Loose

Affiliation Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachussetts, United States of America

Petra Schwille

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany

Karsten Kruse

k.kruse@physik.uni-saarland.de

Affiliation Theoretische Physik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MB EFF ML PS KK. Performed the experiments: EFF. Analyzed the data: MB EFF ML PS KK. Wrote the paper: MB EFF ML PS KK. Implemented code for simulation: MB.