About the Authors

Aruna Rajan

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Peter L. Freddolino

Current address: Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Affiliation Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Klaus Schulten

kschulte@ks.uiuc.edu

Affiliations Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: AR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AR. Wrote the paper: AR. Conceived and performed the molecular dynamics simulations analyzed in this manuscript: PLF. Conceptualized the simulations performed: KS.