About the Authors

Daniel Klose

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Johann P. Klare

jklare@uni-osnabrueck.de (JPK); hsteinho@uni-osnabrueck.de (H-JS)

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Dina Grohmann

Current address: Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Braunschweig University of Technology, Braunschweig, Germany

Affiliation RNAP Laboratory, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Division of Biosciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Christopher W. M. Kay

Affiliations Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Division of Biosciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Finn Werner

Affiliation RNAP Laboratory, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Division of Biosciences, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Heinz-Jürgen Steinhoff

jklare@uni-osnabrueck.de (JPK); hsteinho@uni-osnabrueck.de (H-JS)

Affiliation Department of Physics, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DK JPK H-JS. Performed the experiments: DK DG. Analyzed the data: DK JPK H-JS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CWMK FW H-JS. Wrote the paper: DK JPK DG CWMK FW H-JS.