About the Authors

Don-On Daniel Mak

Affiliation Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

King-Ho Cheung

Affiliation Department of Physiology, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong

Patrick Toglia

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

J. Kevin Foskett

Affiliations Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ghanim Ullah

gullah@usf.edu

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DODM KHC JKF GU. Performed the experiments: DODM KHC PT GU. Analyzed the data: DODM KHC PT GU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DODM KHC PT JKF GU. Wrote the paper: DODM KHC PT GU.