About the Authors

Ellinor Haglund

Affiliations Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) and Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, United States of America, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) and Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry and Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Joanna I. Sulkowska

Affiliation Laboratory of Theory of Biopolymers, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Jeffrey K. Noel

Affiliation Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) and Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry and Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Heiko Lammert

Affiliation Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) and Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry and Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

José N. Onuchic

Affiliation Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) and Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry and Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Patricia A. Jennings

pajennings@ucsd.edu

Affiliation Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EH JIS JKN HL JNO PAJ. Performed the experiments: EH. Analyzed the data: EH JIS JKN HL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EH JIS JKN HL. Wrote the paper: EH JIS JKN HL JNO PAJ.