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6 1 Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States. 7 2 Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States. 8 3 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom 9 4 Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States. 10 5 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States 11 6 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States 12 7 Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research, Dresden, Germany 13 8 Max-Bergmann Center of Biomaterials, Dresden, Germany 14 ♯Current affiliation: Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland 15 * These authors contributed equally to this work. 16 17 Corresponding Author: Ethan C. Garner 18 NW 445.20, Northwest Building, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 19 E-mail: egarner@g.harvard.edu 20 21