About the Authors

Wolfram Stacklies

Contributed equally to this work with: Wolfram Stacklies, M. Cristina Vega

Affiliation CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB), Shanghai, People's Republic of China

M. Cristina Vega

Contributed equally to this work with: Wolfram Stacklies, M. Cristina Vega

Affiliation Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC) and Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Barcelona, Spain

Matthias Wilmanns

Affiliation EMBL-Hamburg Unit, Hamburg, Gemany

Frauke Gräter

frauke@picb.ac.cn

Affiliations CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB), Shanghai, People's Republic of China, Bioquant BQ0031, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Max-Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WS MCV MW FG. Performed the experiments: WS MCV. Analyzed the data: WS MCV FG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WS MCV. Wrote the paper: WS MCV FG. Force distribution and evolutionary coupling: WS. Protein production, crystallization, and structure determination: MCV.