About the Authors

Carla Coltharp

Affiliation Department of Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Rene P. Kessler

Affiliation Department of Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Jie Xiao

xiao@jhmi.edu

Affiliation Department of Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC JX. Performed the experiments: CC RK. Analyzed the data: CC RK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CC RK JX. Wrote the paper: CC JX.