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Schematic representation of a buckled microtubule. The X axis is chosen to pass through two fulcrums that represent attachment points of beads to a microtubule. The origin, O, is located at one of the fulcrums. The two polystyrene beads of radius r illustrate the nonaxial buckling case.
