About the Authors

Elif Eren

Affiliation University of Massachusetts Medical School, Program in Molecular Medicine, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jagamya Vijayaraghavan

Affiliation University of Massachusetts Medical School, Program in Molecular Medicine, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jiaming Liu

Affiliation Syracuse University, Department of Physics, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Belete R. Cheneke

Affiliation Syracuse University, Department of Physics, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Debra S. Touw

Affiliation University of Massachusetts Medical School, Program in Molecular Medicine, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Bryan W. Lepore

Affiliation University of Massachusetts Medical School, Program in Molecular Medicine, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mridhu Indic

Affiliation University of Massachusetts Medical School, Program in Molecular Medicine, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Liviu Movileanu

Affiliation Syracuse University, Department of Physics, Syracuse, New York, United States of America

Bert van den Berg

bert.vandenberg@umassmed.edu

Affiliation University of Massachusetts Medical School, Program in Molecular Medicine, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: LM BvB. Performed the experiments: EE JV JL BRC BWL DST MI BvB. Analyzed the data: EE LM BvB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EE JL BRC DST MI BvB. Wrote the paper: EE BvB. Cloned, purified and crystallized proteins: EE JV MI BvB. Carried out transport experiments: EE BWL DST. Determined crystal structures: EE DST BvB. Performed single channel experiments: JL BRC.