About the Authors

Elif Nihal Korkmaz

Affiliation Polymer Research Center & Chemical Engineering Department, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Ruth Nussinov

ruthnu@helix.nih.gov (RN) (RN); turkan@prc.boun.edu.tr (TH) (TH)

Affiliations Basic Science Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program, NCI-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America, Sackler Institute of Molecular Medicine, Department of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Türkan Haliloğlu

ruthnu@helix.nih.gov (RN) (RN); turkan@prc.boun.edu.tr (TH) (TH)

Affiliation Polymer Research Center & Chemical Engineering Department, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TH. Performed the experiments: ENK. Analyzed the data: ENK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ENK. Wrote the paper: ENK RN TH.