Microtubules can bear enhanced compressive loads in living cells because of lateral reinforcement.

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Published in J Cell Biol on June 05, 2006

Authors

Clifford P Brangwynne1, Frederick C MacKintosh, Sanjay Kumar, Nicholas A Geisse, Jennifer Talbot, L Mahadevan, Kevin K Parker, Donald E Ingber, David A Weitz

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

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