About the Authors

Roberto Marchese

Affiliation Statistical and Biological Physics Sector, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA-ISAS) and DEMOCRITOS, Trieste, Italy

Rita Grandori

rita.grandori@unimib.it (RG); raugei@sissa.it (SR)

Affiliation Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

Paolo Carloni

Affiliations Statistical and Biological Physics Sector, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA-ISAS) and DEMOCRITOS, Trieste, Italy, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Trieste, Italy, Computational Biophysics sector, German Research School for Simulation Science, FZ-Juelich and RWTH, Juelich, Germany

Simone Raugei

rita.grandori@unimib.it (RG); raugei@sissa.it (SR)

Affiliations Statistical and Biological Physics Sector, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA-ISAS) and DEMOCRITOS, Trieste, Italy, Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RG PC. Analyzed the data: SR. Wrote the paper: RG SR. Designed, developed code, performed, and analyzed the simulations, and drafted the article: RM. Contributed to discussion of the results and critically revised the draft: PC. Conceived and designed the simulations: RG SR.