About the Authors

Davi R. Ortega

Affiliations Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, University of Tennessee - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Guoya Mo

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Kwangwoon Lee

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Hongjun Zhou

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Jerome Baudry

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry and Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America, Center for Molecular Biophysics, University of Tennessee - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America

Frederick W. Dahlquist

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Igor B. Zhulin

ijouline@utk.edu

Affiliations Joint Institute for Computational Sciences, University of Tennessee - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DRO GM JB FWD IBZ. Performed the experiments: DRO GM KL HZ. Analyzed the data: DRO GM KL HZ JB FWD IBZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DRO GM KL HZ. Wrote the paper: DRO GM KL HZ JB FWD IBZ.