Figure 5.

Steady-state motor occupancy and depolymerization rate of long MTs. Left axis shows steady-state motor occupancy at the MT plus-end (solid blue line, black circles) or away from the end (red dashed-dotted line) as a function of bulk motor concentration. The mean-field model (solid blue line) is the prediction of Eq. 12 for the steady-state occupancy of the MT plus-end. Right axis shows the resulting steady depolymerization rate in the mean-field model (solid blue line) and simulations (black circles). The simulation results were determined from the simulations shown in Fig. 8.