Movie S1.

Example movie of growth assay with 1.0 μM Tub2-KCK and 0.5 nM of 20-nm gold nanoparticles present (2 frames per second). Gold-Tub2-KCK can occasionally be seen incorporating into growing microtubule tips. Microtubules (unlabeled) continue to grow after gold-Tub2-KCK incorporation. Notably, new gold only appears at growing microtubule tips. Scale bar 2.5 μm.

Direct observation of individual tubulin dimers binding to growing microtubules

Keith J. Mickolajczyk, Elisabeth A. Geyer, Tae Kim, Luke M. Rice, and William O. Hancock

PNAS. 2019. 116:7314-7322 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1815823116