About the Authors

Yoriko Lill

Affiliation Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Lorne D. Jordan

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Chuck R. Smallwood

Current address: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Salete M. Newton

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Markus A. Lill

Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Phillip E. Klebba

peklebba@ksu.edu (PEK); kpritchie@purdue.edu (KR)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Ken Ritchie

peklebba@ksu.edu (PEK); kpritchie@purdue.edu (KR)

Affiliation Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YL LDJ CRS MAL SMN PEK KR. Performed the experiments: YL LDJ CRS MAL SMN PEK KR. Analyzed the data: YL LDJ CRS MAL SMN PEK KR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YL LDJ CRS MAL SMN PEK KR. Wrote the paper: YL PEK KR.