About the Authors

Cai Chen

Affiliation Biophysics Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

David Frankhouser

Affiliation Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Ralf Bundschuh

bundschuh@mps.ohio-state.edu

Affiliations Biophysics Graduate Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Center for RNA Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC RB. Performed the experiments: CC DF. Analyzed the data: CC DF RB. Wrote the paper: CC DF RB.