About the Authors

Erel Levine

Contributed equally to this work with: Erel Levine, Peter McHale

Affiliation Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Peter McHale

Contributed equally to this work with: Erel Levine, Peter McHale

Affiliation Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Herbert Levine

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: hlevine@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

EL and PM conceived the research. EL, PM, and HL designed the research. EL and PM performed the experiments, analyzed the data, and wrote the paper. HL offered comments on the manuscript.