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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 20.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Phys. 2019 Jun 3;15(8):830–838. doi: 10.1038/s41567-019-0542-4

Table 2.

Lattice-defect frequency (mean ± sd) in centrosome-nucleated microtubules observed by Cryo-electron microscopy for various concentrations of tubulin during elongation. Also shown is the total length of microtubules analyzed and the total number of defects.

Tubulin concentration
[μM]
Total length analyzed
[μm]
Number of lattice defects Lattice defect frequency (mean ± sd)
[μm-1]
6.5 6385 44 0.007 ± 0.005
13 4673 76 0.016 ± 0.005
19.5 2056 82 0.040 ± 0.005