About the Authors

Rui Fang

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Fang, Walter N. Moss

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Chemical Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Walter N. Moss

Contributed equally to this work with: Rui Fang, Walter N. Moss

Affiliation Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Michael Rutenberg-Schoenberg

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Chemical Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Matthew D. Simon

matthew.simon@yale.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Chemical Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RF MDS. Performed the experiments: RF. Wrote the paper: RF WNM MDS. Probing data analysis: RF MRS. RNA structure modeling: WNM.