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. 2016 Jul 26;111(2):373–385. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.06.010

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Formation and contraction of MT networks by a motile cross-linker. (A) Time-series images showing the formation of a globally connected contractile MT network ([tubulin] = 1 μM, [Eg5] = 22.5 nM). The images of ATTO647N-labeled MTs (magenta), ATTO565-labeled MTs (yellow), and GFP-fused Eg5 (cyan) are merged. The times displayed in the images represent the times that elapsed after mixing. (B) Time-dependent evolutionary pattern of the vector field representation of node velocities in the active network shown in (A). The velocity of each node is indicated by the length of arrows and the color scale. (C) Temporal evolution pattern of the mean node velocity in the active network shown in (A). The mean value and SD are shown. The total trace number of nodes is 1572. (D) Temporal evolution pattern of the size of total cluster and the largest cluster.