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and for sharing their technical expertise, and Herb Miller (UCSB) for providing purified tu-
bulin proteins. We gratefully acknowledge the support of a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career
Award at the Scientific Interface (to MTV) as well as an NIH/NCRR Shared Instrumentation
Grant (1S10RR017753-01) and the MRSEC Program of the NSF under award no. DMR-
1121053 for providing core facilities for microscopy and polymer characterization,
respectively.
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