About the Authors

Lina Carlini

Contributed equally to this work with: Lina Carlini, Seamus J. Holden, Kyle M. Douglass

Affiliation Institute of the Physics of Biological Systems, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Seamus J. Holden

Contributed equally to this work with: Lina Carlini, Seamus J. Holden, Kyle M. Douglass

Affiliations Institute of the Physics of Biological Systems, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Centre of Bacterial Cell Biology, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Medical School, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Kyle M. Douglass

Contributed equally to this work with: Lina Carlini, Seamus J. Holden, Kyle M. Douglass

Affiliation Institute of the Physics of Biological Systems, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Suliana Manley

suliana.manley@epfl.ch

Affiliation Institute of the Physics of Biological Systems, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LC KMD SJH SM. Performed the experiments: LC KMD SJH. Analyzed the data: LC KMD SJH. Wrote the paper: LC KMD SJH SM.