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. 2020 Jan 22;6(4):eaax7413. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aax7413

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Fig. 3 — (A) Schematic illustration of a fluctuating tip of the microtubule (left) and representative traces of the simulated shape of the tip (right). Traces were obtained by 500 runs of a simulation. (B) Probability density function of the displacement of the tip in y direction. L, the length of a free tip; d_p, the spacing between pillars. n > 10,000.