About the Authors

Cecile O. Mejean

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Andrew W. Schaefer

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Kenneth B. Buck

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Holger Kress

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Alla Shundrovsky

Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Jason W. Merrill

Affiliation Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Eric R. Dufresne

Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Cell Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Paul Forscher

paul.forscher@yale.edu

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: COM AWS AS PF ERD. Performed the experiments: COM AWS KBB. Analyzed the data: COM AWS KBB HK JWM PF ERD. Wrote the manuscript: COM AWS KBB PF ERD.