About the Authors

Mark R Grant

Affiliation University of California San Francisco/University of California Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Keith E Mostov

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Thea D Tlsty

Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

C. Anthony Hunt

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: a.hunt@ucsf.edu

Affiliations University of California San Francisco/University of California Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America , Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Biosystems Group, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

CAH is a Trustee of the CDH Research Foundation.

Author Contributions

MRG conceived the model, implemented the simulation with coauthors' input, and performed the experiments. MRG, KEM, TDT, and CAH analyzed and opined simulation results. MRG and CAH designed the experiments, and wrote the paper with input from coauthors.