About the Authors

Aniket Ravan

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Center for the Physics of Living Cells, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Ruopei Feng

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Center for the Physics of Living Cells, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Martin Gruebele

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mgruebel@illinois.edu (MG); ychemla@illinois.edu (YRC)

Affiliations Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Center for the Physics of Living Cells, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Yann R. Chemla

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mgruebel@illinois.edu (MG); ychemla@illinois.edu (YRC)

Affiliations Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Center for the Physics of Living Cells, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.