About the Authors

César A. Ramírez-Sarmiento

ceramirez@uchile.cl (CARS); artsimovitch.1@osu.edu (IA)

Affiliation Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile

Jeffrey K. Noel

Affiliation Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Sandro L. Valenzuela

Affiliation Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile

Irina Artsimovitch

ceramirez@uchile.cl (CARS); artsimovitch.1@osu.edu (IA)

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and The Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CARS JKN. Performed the experiments: CARS SLV. Analyzed the data: CARS JKN SLV IA. Wrote the paper: CARS JKN IA.