Extended Data Fig. 5: Circular network contractions in experiment and simulation.
From: A printable active network actuator built from an engineered biomolecular motor
a-c, Replotted from Fig. 4e and f in the main text. a, Time evolutions of the radii of networks with different initial radii. b, The contraction speed was a linear function of the radius of the contracting networks. c, The contraction rate was inversely proportional to the microtubule length LMT. Marks represent K465m13 concentrations (open diamond: 0.5 µM, triangle: 1.0 µM, square: 2.0 µM and circle: 4.0 µM, respectively). d, Time evolutions of the radii of simulated networks with different initial radii. e, The contraction speed was a linear function of the radii of contracting networks, reproducing b except the acceleration phase at the large radius. f, The contraction rate was ~vkin/Rnode. Assuming that Rnode is comparable with microtubule length, the simulation result is consistent with the experimental one. Data points are represented as mean ± s.d. (n = 5).
