Structural organization and energy storage in crosslinked actin assemblies
Fig 2
The structure of crosslinked actin networks depends on filament length.
(A) Snapshots of an actin network formed by 81nm-long filaments in a 500nm-wide cubic box. Each filament is represented by a blue line and each crosslink by a red line. (B) Local (blue) and global (red) nematic order parameters of the actin network over the course of the simulation shown in (A). (C) Number of attached crosslinkers (magenta, left axis) and number of clusters (black, right axis) for the simulation in (A). (D-F) Similar figures as in (A-C) but for 216nm-long filaments. (G) Local (blue) and global (red) nematic order parameters as a function of filament length. (H) Number of attached crosslinkers (magenta, left axis) and number of clusters (black, right axis) as a function of filament length. In (G) and (H), for each simulation, the means of the metrics were calculated from the data between 40s to 50s and the error bars indicate standard deviation over 10 simulations.