About the Authors

Georg Fritz

Contributed equally to this work with: Georg Fritz, Judith A. Megerle

Affiliations Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and CeNS, Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, Center for Integrated Protein Science (CiPSM) at the Department of Biology, Microbiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Martinsried, Germany

Judith A. Megerle

Contributed equally to this work with: Georg Fritz, Judith A. Megerle

Affiliation Faculty of Physics and CeNS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Sonja A. Westermayer

Affiliation Faculty of Physics and CeNS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Delia Brick

Affiliation Faculty of Physics and CeNS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Ralf Heermann

Affiliation Center for Integrated Protein Science (CiPSM) at the Department of Biology, Microbiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Martinsried, Germany

Kirsten Jung

Affiliation Center for Integrated Protein Science (CiPSM) at the Department of Biology, Microbiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Martinsried, Germany

Joachim O. Rädler

Affiliation Faculty of Physics and CeNS, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Ulrich Gerland

gerland@lmu.de

Affiliation Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and CeNS, Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GF JM RH KJ JR UG. Performed the experiments: GF JM SW DB RH. Analyzed the data: GF JM. Wrote the paper: GF JM SW RH KJ JR UG.