Your friend discovers a protein that she names EBP.EBP binds to microtubule plus ends, and she hypothesizes a role for EBP in increasing dynamic instability.To determine the function of EBP, she examines its effect on microtubules.She polymerizes microtubules from purified centrosomes in a Petri plate and determines the number of shrinking microtubules over a three-minute time interval for different concentrations of EBP.The data she obtained are shown in Figure 17-8. (A)

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Figure 17-8
Is this result consistent with her hypothesis? Explain.

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Your friend discovers a protein that she names EBP.EBP binds to microtubule plus ends, and she hypothesizes a role for EBP in increasing dynamic instability.To determine the function of EBP, she examines its effect on microtubules.She polymerizes microtubules from purified centrosomes in a Petri plate and determines the number of shrinking microtubules over a three-minute time interval for different concentrations of EBP.The data she obtained are shown in Figure 17-8. (A)

(B)

(C)

Figure 17-8
Is this result consistent with her hypothesis? Explain.

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Your Friend Discovers a Protein That She Names EBP