About the Authors

Lars V. Schäfer

Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany

Gerrit Groenhof

Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany

Martial Boggio-Pasqua

Affiliation Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques, IRSAMC, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

Michael A. Robb

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Helmut Grubmüller

hgrubmu@gwdg.de

Affiliation Department of Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LS GG MB-P MR HG. Performed the experiments: LS MB-P. Analyzed the data: LS GG MB-P. Wrote the paper: LS GG MB-P MR HG.