About the Authors

Yukako Nishimura

Affiliation Cell Biology and Physiology Center, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kathryn Applegate

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Michael W. Davidson

Affiliation National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee Florida, United States of America

Gaudenz Danuser

Affiliations Department of Cell Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Clare M. Waterman

watermancm@nhlbi.nih.gov

Affiliation Cell Biology and Physiology Center, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CMW YN. Performed the experiments: YN. Analyzed the data: YN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GD KA MWD. Wrote the paper: CMW YN.