About the Authors

Yann S. Dufour

dufourya@msu.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Sébastien Gillet

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Nicholas W. Frankel

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Douglas B. Weibel

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Thierry Emonet

Affiliations Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YSD NWF TE DBW. Performed the experiments: YSD SG. Analyzed the data: YSD TE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YSD TE DBW. Wrote the paper: YSD NWF TE.