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Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge our co-workers who made essential contributions
to the original work which was reviewed here: Professor Michael A. Horton,
Dr. Gleb Yakubov, Dr. Farlan Veraitch, Dr. Chris Mason, David Yadin, Alexandra
Hemsley and Carol Chu. This work was supported by the Biotechnology and
Biological Sciences Research Council, the “Dr. Mortimer and Mrs. Theresa
Sackler Trust” and the Nanotechnology IRC through an Exploratory Grant.
YRS acknowledges the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for a
post-doctoral fellowship. LG thanks the Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council for a graduate fellowship. AEP is a Canada Research Chair
in Experimental Cell Mechanics.
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