About the Authors

Helena Skar

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Jan Albert

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Thomas Leitner

tkl@lanl.gov

Affiliation Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS JA TL. Performed the experiments: JA. Analyzed the data: HS TL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HS TL. Wrote the paper: HS JA TL.