About the Authors

Zhe Zhang

Affiliation Computational Biophysics and Bioinformatics, Department of Physics, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

Yueli Zheng

Affiliation Computational Biophysics and Bioinformatics, Department of Physics, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

Margo Petukh

Affiliation Computational Biophysics and Bioinformatics, Department of Physics, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

Anthony Pegg

Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Yoshihiko Ikeguchi

ikeguchi@josai.ac.jp (YI); ealexov@clemson.edu (EA)

Affiliation Laboratory of Bio-analytical Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Josai University, Saitama, Japan

Emil Alexov

ikeguchi@josai.ac.jp (YI); ealexov@clemson.edu (EA)

Affiliation Computational Biophysics and Bioinformatics, Department of Physics, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZZ AP YI EA. Performed the experiments: ZZ YZ MP YI EA. Analyzed the data: ZZ YI EA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZZ YI EA. Wrote the paper: ZZ YZ YI EA.