About the Authors

Jacob M. Kowalewski

Affiliation Karolinska Institutet, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Huddinge, Sweden

Hamdah Shafqat-Abbasi

Affiliation Karolinska Institutet, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Huddinge, Sweden

Mehrdad Jafari-Mamaghani

Affiliations Karolinska Institutet, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Huddinge, Sweden, Division of Mathematical Statistics, Department of Mathematics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Bereket Endrias Ganebo

Affiliation Karolinska Institutet, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Huddinge, Sweden

Xiaowei Gong

Affiliation Karolinska Institutet, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Huddinge, Sweden

Staffan Strömblad

Contributed equally to this work with: Staffan Strömblad, John G. Lock

Affiliation Karolinska Institutet, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Huddinge, Sweden

John G. Lock

Contributed equally to this work with: Staffan Strömblad, John G. Lock

john.lock@ki.se

Affiliation Karolinska Institutet, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Huddinge, Sweden

Competing Interests

Imaging was performed at the Live Cell Imaging unit/Nikon Center of Excellence, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMK SS JGL. Performed the experiments: HSA XG. Analyzed the data: JMK HSA MJM BEG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JMK MJM BEG. Wrote the paper: JMK SS JGL.