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Values of flexural rigidity and persistence length of microtubules from several sources

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Organism	Generic
Reference	van Mameren J, Vermeulen KC, Gittes F, Schmidt CF. Leveraging single protein polymers to measure flexural rigidity. J Phys Chem B. 2009 Mar 26 113(12):3837-44. p. 3843 table 2PubMed ID19673071
Primary Source	List of refs in table
Method	(For this research, table has values from other researches) Researchers report a new approach to obtain the flexural rigidity by means of well-controlled active experiments using optical tweezers to bend the filaments locally, as schematically depicted in Figure 1. In this way force-extension curves were measured for taxol-stabilized microtubules and rhodamine-phalloidin labeled actin filaments.
Entered by	Uri M
ID	105532