About the Authors

Philipp S. Orekhov

Contributed equally to this work with: Philipp S. Orekhov, Daniel Klose

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of Osnabrueck, Osnabrueck, Germany, Department of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Daniel Klose

Contributed equally to this work with: Philipp S. Orekhov, Daniel Klose

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Osnabrueck, Osnabrueck, Germany

Armen Y. Mulkidjanian

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of Osnabrueck, Osnabrueck, Germany, Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics and A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Konstantin V. Shaitan

Affiliation Department of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Martin Engelhard

Affiliation Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany

Johann P. Klare

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Osnabrueck, Osnabrueck, Germany

Heinz-Jürgen Steinhoff

hsteinho@uni-osnabrueck.de

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Osnabrueck, Osnabrueck, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PSO DK ME JPK AYM KVS HJS. Performed the experiments: PSO DK. Analyzed the data: PSO DK JPK HJS. Wrote the paper: PSO DK JPK ME HJS.