About the Authors

Jonas Franz

Affiliation Medical faculty, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Benjamin F. Brinkmann

Affiliation Institute-associated Research Group "Cell adhesion and cell polarity", Institute of Medical Biochemistry, ZMBE, 48419 Münster, Germany

Michael König

Affiliation Medical faculty, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Jana Hüve

Affiliation Fluorescence Microscopy Facility Münster, Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Center for Nanotechnology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

Christian Stock

Affiliation Centre for Internal Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Klaus Ebnet

Affiliation Institute-associated Research Group "Cell adhesion and cell polarity", Institute of Medical Biochemistry, ZMBE, 48419 Münster, Germany

Christoph Riethmüller

info@nanostic.org

Affiliation Serend-ip GmbH, Centre for Nanotechnology, Münster, Germany

Competing Interests

Serend-ip GmbH provided support in the form of salaries for authors CR. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CR. Performed the experiments: JF BFB JH MK. Analyzed the data: JF BFB CR JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CR JH KE CS. Wrote the paper: CS KE JF CR.