About the Authors

Kiran Girdhar

Affiliation Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America

Martin Gruebele

ychemla@illinois.edu (YRC); mgruebel@illinois.edu (MG)

Affiliations Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America, Department of Physics, Center for the Physics of Living Cells, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, 61801, United States of America

Yann R. Chemla

ychemla@illinois.edu (YRC); mgruebel@illinois.edu (MG)

Affiliations Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America, Department of Physics, Center for the Physics of Living Cells, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MG YRC. Performed the experiments: KG. Analyzed the data: KG MG YRC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KG MG YRC. Wrote the paper: KG MG YRC.