About the Authors

César Augusto F. de Oliveira

Contributed equally to this work with: César Augusto F. de Oliveira, Barry J. Grant, Michelle Zhou

cesar@mccammon.ucsd.edu

Affiliation Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Barry J. Grant

Contributed equally to this work with: César Augusto F. de Oliveira, Barry J. Grant, Michelle Zhou

Affiliation Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Michelle Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: César Augusto F. de Oliveira, Barry J. Grant, Michelle Zhou

Affiliation Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

J. Andrew McCammon

Affiliations Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CO BJG MZ JAM. Performed the experiments: CO BJG MZ JAM. Analyzed the data: CO BJG MZ JAM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CO BJG MZ JAM. Wrote the paper: CO BJG JAM.