FIGURE 2.
Influence of F-actin depolymerization on stress generation in OL membrane. (a) 125 short filaments with mean length Lm = 1 and standard deviation STD =0.2. A single connected structure breaks down into several disconnected actin filaments highly reducing the stress in the membrane. (b) 25 long filaments having random angular orientation and centroid location with lengths distributed normally with Lm = 5 and STD = 0.8. The number of filament intersections is relatively large and there exist a contiguous connected filament structure. (c) A qualitative dependence of the maximal surface density of force-generating myosin on the average actin filament length