About the Authors

Matteo Mori

Affiliations Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy, Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Terence Hwa

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Institute for Theoretical Studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Olivier C. Martin

Affiliation GQE - Le Moulon, INRA, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Andrea De Martino

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea De Martino, Enzo Marinari

andrea.demartino@roma1.infn.it

Affiliations Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy, Soft and Living Matter Lab, Istituto di Nanotecnologia (CNR-NANOTEC), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy, Center for Life Nano Science@Sapienza, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Rome, Italy, Human Genetics Foundation, Turin, Italy

Enzo Marinari

Contributed equally to this work with: Andrea De Martino, Enzo Marinari

Affiliations Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy, Soft and Living Matter Lab, Istituto di Nanotecnologia (CNR-NANOTEC), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy, INFN, Sezione di Roma 1, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TH OCM ADM EM. Performed the experiments: MM. Analyzed the data: MM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM TH OCM ADM EM. Wrote the paper: MM TH OCM ADM EM.