Fig. 4: The number of successive branching generations from a mother filament regulates the elastic properties of the branched actin network.

a Successive branching generations in dendritic structure. b Young’s moduli. c Shear moduli. d Poisson’s ratios under the compressive force along the movement direction. The solid data points in figures are mean values calculated from about 30 stochastic models with the same set of parameters of intracellular proteins, and the error bars are the standard deviations of the results.