About the Authors

Pei-I Ku

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Mourad Bendjennat

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Jeff Ballew

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Michael B. Landesman

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Saveez Saffarian

saffarian@physics.utah.edu

Affiliations Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Center for Cell and Genome Science, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS. Performed the experiments: PK MB JB ML. Analyzed the data: PK MB ML. Wrote the paper: SS.