Figure 5
Relaxation time extracted from mean squared displacement of microtubules vs. microtubule length as measured by Taute et al.13 from thermal fluctuations of filaments. The fitted dotted-line with slope 4 and the dashed-line with slope 2 offered by Taute et al.13 reproduce the asymptotes of the Timoshenko theory (14) (blue curve) which remains a good approximation for all lengths.
