About the Authors

Jesse A. Engelberg

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

Anirban Datta

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

Keith E. Mostov

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

C. Anthony Hunt

a.hunt@ucsf.edu

Affiliations UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JAE AD CAH KEM. Performed the experiments: JAE AD. Analyzed the data: JAE AD CAH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JAE AD CAH KEM. Wrote the paper: JAE CAH. Performed in vitro experiments: AD. Analyzed results of in vitro experiments: JAE AD. Engineered the software: JAE. Designed ISMA experiments: JAE CAH. Executed ISMA experiments: JAE. Analyzed simulation results of ISMA experiments: JAE CAH KEM AD.