About the Authors

Paul Egan

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jeffrey Moore

Current address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christian Schunn

schunn@pitt.edu (CS); cagan@cmu.edu (JC); prl@andrew.cmu.edu (PL)

Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jonathan Cagan

schunn@pitt.edu (CS); cagan@cmu.edu (JC); prl@andrew.cmu.edu (PL)

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Philip LeDuc

schunn@pitt.edu (CS); cagan@cmu.edu (JC); prl@andrew.cmu.edu (PL)

Affiliation Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PE. Performed the experiments: PE. Analyzed the data: PE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PE JM. Wrote the paper: PE JC CS PL. Designed, coded, and operated molecular simulation: PE. Conceived and contributed to wet-lab experiments: PE JM.