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Published in final edited form as: Nano Lett. 2010 Dec 22;11(2):825–827. doi: 10.1021/nl104159v

Table 1.

Comparison of ABP-Bound F-Actin Filaments

n ~ 50	F-actin	F-actin + drebrin	F-actin + cofilin
filament width (nm)	18.6 ± 2	40.5 ± 2.0	30.4 ± 2.6
pitch of helix (periodicity) (nm)	36 ± 2	40.0 ± 0.8	28.7 ± 2.1^b
persistence length L_p (AFM) (µm)	7.05^a	10.9	1.47^c
elastic modulus (Y) (MPa)	144	225	30.3

See refs 16 and 17.

See ref 11.

See ref 18.