About the Authors

Gabriel Piedrafita

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo

Affiliations Departamento de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia, Universidad del País Vasco, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, Unidad de Biofísica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad del País Vasco, Leioa, Spain

Pierre-Alain Monnard

Affiliation Center for Fundamental Living Technology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Athel Cornish-Bowden

Affiliation Unité de Bioénergétique et Ingénierie des Protéines, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseille, France

Francisco Montero

framonte@quim.ucm.es

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular I, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GP KRM FM. Performed the experiments: GP. Analyzed the data: GP KRM PAM ACB FM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GP PAM. Wrote the paper: GP KRM PAM ACB FM.