About the Authors

Susmita Roy

Affiliation Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Heiko Lammert

Affiliation Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Ryan L. Hayes

Current address: Department of Chemistry and Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Affiliation Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Bin Chen

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Regan LeBlanc

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

T. Kwaku Dayie

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

José N. Onuchic

jonuchic@rice.edu (JNO); kys@lanl.gov (KYS)

Affiliations Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry, and Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Karissa Y. Sanbonmatsu

jonuchic@rice.edu (JNO); kys@lanl.gov (KYS)

Affiliations Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America, New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JNO KYS SR. Data curation: SR BC RL. Formal analysis: SR JNO KYS. Funding acquisition: JNO KYS TKD. Investigation: SR BC RL. Methodology: SR RLH HL. Project administration: JNO KYS. Resources: JNO KYS. Supervision: JNO TKD KYS. Validation: SR BC RL TKD. Visualization: SR JNO KYS. Writing – original draft: SR KYS TKD. Writing – review & editing: SR HL JNO KYS TKD.