About the Authors

Zhihong Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Vishal I. Kottadiel

Affiliation Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Reza Vafabakhsh

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Li Dai

Affiliation Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Yann R. Chemla

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Taekjip Ha

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Venigalla B. Rao

rao@cua.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, District of Columbia, 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: VBR. Performed the experiments: ZZ VIK RV LD. Analyzed the data: ZZ VIK RV LD YRC TH VBR. Wrote the paper: ZZ VIK RV TH VBR.