About the Authors

Ramya Gamini

Affiliations Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Wei Han

Affiliation Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

John E. Stone

Affiliation Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Klaus Schulten

kschulte@ks.uiuc.edu

Affiliations Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RG KS. Performed the experiments: RG. Analyzed the data: RG WH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JES WH. Wrote the paper: RG WH KS.