About the Authors

Antonina Y. Alexandrova

Affiliations Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, Lausanne, Switzerland, Belozersky Institute of Physical and Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Katya Arnold

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Sébastien Schaub

Affiliations Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, Lausanne, Switzerland, Institut “Biologie du Développement et Cancer” UMR 6543–CNRS, Nice, France

Jury M. Vasiliev

Affiliations Belozersky Institute of Physical and Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, Cancer Research Center, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Jean-Jacques Meister

Affiliation Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Alexander D. Bershadsky

alexander.bershadsky@weizmann.ac.il (ADB); alexander.verkhovsky@epfl.ch (ABV)

Affiliation Department of Molecular Cell Biology, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Alexander B. Verkhovsky

alexander.bershadsky@weizmann.ac.il (ADB); alexander.verkhovsky@epfl.ch (ABV)

Affiliation Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratory of Cell Biophysics, Lausanne, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AYA ADB ABV. Performed the experiments: AYA SS ABV. Analyzed the data: AYA SS JMV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KA JJM. Wrote the paper: ADB ABV.