About the Authors

Saroj Kumar

Affiliation School of Natural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden

Lasse ten Siethoff

Affiliation School of Natural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden

Malin Persson

Affiliation School of Natural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden

Mercy Lard

Affiliation The Nanometer Structure Consortium and Division of Solid State Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Geertruy te Kronnie

Affiliation Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padua, Padova, Italy

Heiner Linke

Affiliation The Nanometer Structure Consortium and Division of Solid State Physics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Alf Månsson

alf.mansson@lnu.se

Affiliation School of Natural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts. Alf Månsson is a co-founder, co-owner and CEO of the start-up company ActoSense Biotech AB (Kalmar, Sweden) aiming to develop diagnostic devices based on the aggregation of cytoskeletal elements, particularly actin filaments, in solution. Moreover, A. Månsson holds two Swedish patents in this field and application for one of these patents (about aggregation of actin filaments by analyte molecules) has also been filed in the U.S. and Europe.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM SK GtK HL. Performed the experiments: SK LtS MP. Analyzed the data: SK AM MP LtS ML. Wrote the paper: AM SK HL LtS ML MP GtK.