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. 2008 Jan 30;94(10):4014–4019. doi: 10.1529/biophysj.107.123083

TABLE 1.

Radius of curvature of microtubule gliding tracks on dynein d-coated glass slides in the presence of various concentrations of nucleotides

[ATP] 0.1 0.5 1.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
Nucleotide conditions (mM) [ADP] 0.1 0.1 0.1 0 0.1 0.4 0.7
Change in orientation a (rad/s) 0.025 0.029 0.021 0.032 0.023 0.016 0.013
Gliding speed v (μm/s) 2.4 (0.4)* 2.9 (0.4) 2.2 (0.6) 2.7 (0.4) 2.5 (0.6) 2.0 (0.4) 1.4 (0.2)
Radius of the curvature r = v/a (μm) 96 (16) 100 (13) 105 (29) 85 (13) 109 (26) 125 (25) 108 (15)
*

Numbers in parentheses are standard deviations.

Gliding velocities of ∼15 microtubules were measured for each condition.