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Correspondence: dconway@vcu.edu; Tel.: +1-804-828-2592
S.R.B., A.P.K., and D.E.C. designed the tension sensor; S.R.B., P.T.A., V.N., N.R.D., C.R.M., S.T.N., D.A.A., A.M., and D.E.C. performed experiments and analyzed data; and D.E.C. wrote the article.
We thank Kathy Green and Rob Tombes for providing reagents and Niharika Patel and Hayley Eicher for assistance with experiments.
We also wish to thank Scott Henderson and Judy Williamson in the VCU Microscopy Core for performing immunogold electron microscopy.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This project was supported by start-up funding from the VCU Presidential Research Quest Fund (to DEC), American Heart Association 16SDG27370007 (to DEC), and National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants R03AR068096 (to DEC), R35GM119617 (to DEC), and R01AR048266 (to APK).
Services and products in support of the research project were generated by the VCU Massey Cancer Center Biological Macromolecule Shared Resource and the Microscopy Shared Resource, both supported, in part, with funding from NIH-NCI Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA016059. APC (article processing charge) was sponsored by MDPI.
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