Table 1 Data obtained from tracking single molecule events of different IFT components, entering the phasmid cilia

From: IFT cargo and motors associate sequentially with IFT trains to enter cilia of C. elegans

Worm strain

No. of cilia (No. of worms)

No. of tracks

Moving localizations (Paused localizations)

Docking location (nm)

Measured pause time; \({t}_{{p\_m}}\)(s) (No. of tracks)

Estimated real pause times; \({t}_{{p\_actual}}\)(s)

kinesin-II

12 (7)

311

6693 (225)

188 ± 20

0.9 ± 0.1 (291)

0.4–0.8

OSM-3

16 (9)

419

8706 (88)

334 ± 39

0.4 ± 0.1 (415)

0–0.1

IFT-dynein

14 (7)

666

11,314 (18,561)

112 ± 8

1.8 ± 0.2 (263)

2.7–8

Tubulin

11 (7)

170

4085 (36)

660 ± 255

0.2 ± 0 (169)

0

OSM-3 kap-1

14 (8)

304

8085 (1471)

315 ± 72

0.7 ± 0.1 (286)

0.4–0.8

IFT-dynein kap-1

28 (17)

420

4974 (6859)

189 ± 25

1.4 ± 0.3 (261)

1.5–3.5a

kinesin-II osm-3

20 (10)

299

9490 (603)

229 ± 30

0.7 ± 0.1 (274)

0.4–0.8

OSM-3 mksr-1

14 (9)

429

11,672 (116)

428 ± 56

0.3 ± 0 (428)

0a

kinesin-II mksr-1

12 (9)

112

1741 (148)

186 ± 29

0.7 ± 0.2 (102)

0.3–0.5a

OSM-3 kap-1; mksr-1

10 (7)

191

3923 (1137)

230 ± 56

0.9 ± 0.2 (173)

1.1–1.9

  1. For measured pause time information only tracks moving >300 nm were considered (this number is indicated).
  2. aindicates that in these cases none of the simulations yield the experimentally obtained \({t}_{{p\_m}}\), hence the closest \({t}_{{p\_m}}\) is used to provide an estimate.