About the Authors

David N. LeBard

Contributed equally to this work with: David N. LeBard, Jérôme Hénin

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Institute for Computational Molecular Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jérôme Hénin

Contributed equally to this work with: David N. LeBard, Jérôme Hénin

Affiliation Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Structures Macromoléculaires, CNRS and Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France

Roderic G. Eckenhoff

Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michael L. Klein

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Institute for Computational Molecular Science, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Grace Brannigan

grace.brannigan@rutgers.edu

Affiliation Department of Physics and Center for Computational and Integrative Biology, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DNL JH GB. Performed the experiments: DNL. Analyzed the data: DNL JH GB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH GB. Wrote the paper: DNL JH RGE MLK GB.