About the Authors

Jean-Pierre Baudoin

Affiliation Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

W. Gray Jerome

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Christian Kübel

Affiliation Institute of Nanotechnology (INT) and Karlsruhe Nano Micro Facility (KNMF), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshaffen, Germany

Niels de Jonge

niels.dejonge@inm-gmbh.de

Affiliations Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarbrücken, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JPB CK WGJ NdJ. Performed the experiments: JPB CK NdJ. Analyzed the data: JPB NdJ. Wrote the paper: JPB NdJ.