About the Authors

Flavia Autore

Affiliations Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, BHF Centre of Research Excellence, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Mark Pfuhl

Affiliation Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Xueping Quan

Affiliation Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Aisling Williams

Affiliations Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, BHF Centre of Research Excellence, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Roland G. Roberts

Current address: Public Library of Science, Carlyle House, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Affiliation Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Kings College London, Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Catherine M. Shanahan

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, BHF Centre of Research Excellence, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

Franca Fraternali

franca.fraternali@kcl.ac.uk

Affiliations Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, The Thomas Young Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FA MP FF RGR. Performed the experiments: FA XQ AW. Analyzed the data: FA MP XQ RGR CMS FF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FF MP CMS. Wrote the paper: FA XQ RGR CMS FF.