About the Authors

Kevin K. Chiou

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Lars Hufnagel

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Boris I. Shraiman

shraiman@kitp.ucsb.edu

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LH BIS. Performed the experiments: KKC. Analyzed the data: KKC. Wrote the paper: KKC BIS.