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. 2018 May 21;13(5):e0197538. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197538

Fig 2. Parameter Set A generates an array of long MTs, confined by the cell boundary.

Fig 2

(A) Simulated MT length distribution for a radius of 25 μm. (B) Length of a single simulated MT over the 10,000 s of the simulation run. (C) The first 500 s of a simulation is shown to highlight the slower rate of MT polymerization as tubulin assembles into polymer (compare slopes at arrows). Free tubulin concentration declines rapidly during this time course (see graph in E). (D) Average MT length reaches a stable value of ~22 μm rapidly during simulations. (E,F) The number of MTs and free tubulin concentration, as well as their standard deviations, reach plateaus by ~ 10,000 s.