About the Authors

Archana Bajpai

Affiliation The Microsoft Research-University of Trento Centre for Computational Systems Biology, Piazza Manifattura 1, Rovereto, Italy

Anna Feoktistova

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jun-Song Chen

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Dannel McCollum

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems and Program in Cell Dynamics, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Masamitsu Sato

Affiliations Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Rafael E. Carazo-Salas

Affiliation The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Kathleen L. Gould

Affiliation Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Attila Csikász-Nagy

attila.csikasz-nagy@fmach.it

Affiliations The Microsoft Research-University of Trento Centre for Computational Systems Biology, Piazza Manifattura 1, Rovereto, Italy, Department of Computational Biology, Research and Innovation Center, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy, Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics and Institute for Mathematical and Molecular Biomedicine, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KLG ACN. Performed the experiments: AF JSC. Analyzed the data: AB ACN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DM MS RECS. Wrote the paper: AB KLG ACN. Developed the model and ran simulations: AB ACN.