Figure 5.

Cortical sliding with low dynein densities ${\tilde{\rho }}_{\text{IS}}$. (a) The dependence of the average MTOC-IS distance ${\overline{d}}_{\text{MIS}}$ on time is shown. The error bars are represented by dashed lines and are plotted only if bigger than a symbol size. (b–d) Dependencies of the average MTOC velocity ${\overline{v}}_{\text{MTOC}}$ (b), number of dyneins acting on MTs ${\overline{N}}_{\text{dm}}$ (c), and the MTOC-center distance ${\overline{d}}_{\text{MC}}$ (d) on the average MTOC-IS distance are shown. (e and f) Probability distributions of the angles α between the first MT segment and the MTOC motion, ${\tilde{\rho }}_{\text{IS}}$ = 60 μm⁻², are shown. (e) t = 5 s, ${\overline{d}}_{\text{MIS}}$ ∼ 9 μm. (f) t = 65 s, ${\overline{d}}_{\text{MIS}}$ ∼ 5 μm. To see this figure in color, go online.