About the Authors

Ronald D. Hills Jr

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute and Computation Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Lanyuan Lu

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute and Computation Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Gregory A. Voth

voth@hec.utah.edu

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute and Computation Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Chemistry and Center for Biophysical Modeling and Simulation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RDH GAV. Performed the experiments: RDH LL. Analyzed the data: RDH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RDH LL. Wrote the paper: RDH LL GAV.