Fig. 5
From: Microtubule encounter-based catastrophe in Arabidopsis cortical microtubule arrays
CMTs with encounter-based catastrophe pause upon encounter with the barrier MT. a Kymographs showing free catastrophe without pause (left panel) and encounter-based catastrophe with pause (right panel). The arrowheads mark the start and the end of contact. Bars: The kymographs display a period of 76 s, scale bar = 1 μm. b Histogram showing the distribution of pausing times for MTs that undergo encounter-based catastrophe. The pausing time ranges from 10 to 80 s, and average time is 19.23 s. c Encounter-based catastrophes are preceded by pause more frequently than are free catastrophes. n = 107 cells, 119 free catastrophe and 1196 encounter-based catastrophe events