About the Authors

Purushottam D. Dixit

Affiliation Biology, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America

Sergei Maslov

maslov@bnl.gov

Affiliations Biology, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America, Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PDD SM. Performed the experiments: PDD. Analyzed the data: PDD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PDD. Wrote the paper: PDD SM.