About the Authors

Aaron M. Streets

Current address: Peking University, Beijing, China

Affiliation Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Yannick Sourigues

Affiliation Laboratoire d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Structurales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Ron R. Kopito

Affiliation Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Ronald Melki

Affiliation Laboratoire d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Structurales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Stephen R. Quake

quake@stanford.edu

Affiliations Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Edited the manuscript: RRK RM SRQ. Conceived and designed the experiments: AMS RRK RM SRQ. Performed the experiments: AMS. Analyzed the data: AMS RRK RM SRQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YS RRK RM SRQ. Wrote the paper: AMS.