About the Authors

Jérôme R. D. Soiné

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute for Theoretical Physics and BioQuant, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Christoph A. Brand

‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute for Theoretical Physics and BioQuant, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Jonathan Stricker

Affiliation Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, Department of Physics, and The James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States of America

Patrick W. Oakes

Affiliation Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, Department of Physics, and The James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States of America

Margaret L. Gardel

Affiliation Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, Department of Physics, and The James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, United States of America

Ulrich S. Schwarz

Ulrich.Schwarz@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de

Affiliation Institute for Theoretical Physics and BioQuant, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MLG USS. Performed the experiments: JRDS CAB JS PWO. Analyzed the data: JRDS CAB JS PWO MLG USS. Wrote the paper: JRDS CAB USS.