About the Authors

Dan Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Xie, Chieh-Chun Chen

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Chieh-Chun Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Dan Xie, Chieh-Chun Chen

Affiliation Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Xin He

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Xiaoyi Cao

Affiliation Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Sheng Zhong

szhong@illinois.edu

Affiliations Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DX XH SZ. Performed the experiments: DX CCC XC. Analyzed the data: DX CCC XC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XC. Wrote the paper: DX CCC SZ.