About the Authors

Pakiza Noutsi

Affiliation Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Engineering, Thuwal, KSA

Enrico Gratton

Affiliation Laboratory of Fluorescence Dynamics, Biomedical Engineering Department, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Sahraoui Chaieb

sahraoui.chaieb@kaust.edu.sa; schaieb@lbl.gov

Affiliations Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Engineering, Thuwal, KSA, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 cyclotron road, Mailstop 6R-2100, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PN SC. Performed the experiments: PN. Analyzed the data: PN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SC EG. Wrote the paper: PN. Provided training on the SimFCS software and discussed the data: EG. Edited the manuscript and discussed the data: SC.