Fig. 3: Biochemical processes control the transition from a bend instability to a buckling instability.
From: Competing instabilities reveal how to rationally design and control active crosslinked gels
Experimental phase diagrams, experimental phase boundaries (dashed lines) and theoretical phase boundaries (continuous black lines) describing the transition from an in-plane fluid-like bend instability to an the out-of-plane solid-like buckling for various a ATP and PRC1 crosslinker concentrations ([motor clusters] = 60 nM), b motor clusters and PRC1 concentrations ([ATP] = 1 mM), c ATP and motor clusters concentrations ([PRC1] = 100 nM), and d microtubules’ length and motor cluster concentration ([ATP] = 8 μM, [PRC1] = 100 nM). The color map indicates blurriness B and is the same for the four phase diagrams. Each colored circle corresponds to a distinct experimental realization. Source data are provided in the Source data file.
