title: Self-organized criticality and dynamic instability of microtubule growth.
abstract: We have shown that the distribution of lengths of site nucleated microtubules obey an algebraic power law relationship D(s) = A s(-tau), where D(s) is relative number of microtubules with length s, A and tau are constants. This relationship indicates the possibility of a self-organized criticality in the dynamic instability of microtubule growth.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biophysics and Chemical Physics, Comenius Univeristy, Bratislava, Slovakia.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Babinec
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Babincová
mesh_terms: D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D008433:Mathematics; D008870:Microtubules / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D014404:Tubulin / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D014404:Tubulin; D006160:Guanosine Triphosphate