About the Authors

Robert P. Erickson

REP and ZJ are co-first authors on this work. SPG and CCY are co-senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Zhiyuan Jia

REP and ZJ are co-first authors on this work. SPG and CCY are co-senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Steven P. Gross

REP and ZJ are co-first authors on this work. SPG and CCY are co-senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Clare C. Yu

cyu@uci.edu

REP and ZJ are co-first authors on this work. SPG and CCY are co-senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZJ SPG CCY. Performed the experiments: RPE ZJ. Analyzed the data: RPE ZJ SPG CCY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RPE ZJ CCY. Wrote the paper: RPE ZJ SPG CCY.