About the Authors

Kinya Hotta

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, School of Biosciences, The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Selangor, Malaysia

Soumya Ranganathan

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Ruchuan Liu

Affiliations Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Fei Wu

Affiliation Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Hiroaki Machiyama

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Rong Gao

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Hiroaki Hirata

Affiliation Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Neelesh Soni

Affiliation Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India

Takashi Ohe

Affiliation Locomotive Syndrome Research Institute, Nadogaya Hospital, Kashiwa, Japan

Christopher W. V. Hogue

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore

M. S. Madhusudhan

madhusudhan@iiserpune.ac.in (MSM); ys454-ind@umin.ac.jp (YS)

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore

Yasuhiro Sawada

madhusudhan@iiserpune.ac.in (MSM); ys454-ind@umin.ac.jp (YS)

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Locomotive Syndrome Research Institute, Nadogaya Hospital, Kashiwa, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KH SR RL HH TO NS CWVH MSM YS. Performed the experiments: SR FW HM RG NS MSM. Analyzed the data: KH SR RL FW NS MSM YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RL HM MSM YS. Wrote the paper: KH RL MSM YS.