Figure 2
From: The rate of microtubule breaking increases exponentially with curvature
Interquartile range for the distribution of angle changes as a function of segment length. Experimental data for a kinesin surface density and ATP concentration of 500 μm−2 and 1 mM (blue, solid line). Simulation of a microtubule undergoing a persistent random walk with persistence length \(L_{P} = 103\) μm corrupted with uniformly distributed noise on \(\left[ { - \sigma_{pos} , \sigma_{pos} } \right]\), with \(\sigma_{pos} = 9.7\;{\text{nm}}\) (black, dashed line).
