About the Authors

Martin Lindén

Current address: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Affiliation Department of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Pierre Sens

Affiliation Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Théorique, CNRS/UMR 7083, ESPCI, Paris, France

Rob Phillips

phillips@pboc.caltech.edu

Affiliations Department of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Théorique, CNRS/UMR 7083, ESPCI, Paris, France, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML PS RP. Performed the experiments: ML PS RP. Analyzed the data: ML. Wrote the paper: ML PS RP.