Gliding motility assay using 5528mM D2O in solution. Replicate 2/3. ROI 9/15.

• This is a gliding motility assay using kinesin-1 and rhodamine labeled microtubules. • The buffer used was PEM (also known as BRB80) with the inclusion of 5528mM D2O. • Images were taken with an Andor Luca EMCCD camera on an Olympus IX-71 microscope using a 60x 1.42NA PlanApo objective. • This fileset is replicate 2/3 and ROI 9/15. • Images were taken to investigate speed variations of microtubules due to the inclusion of D2O in the motility assay. • The temperature of the slide was held constant at 32°C by an objective heater. Early ROIs, i.e. 1-5, have slower giding speeds due to the increasing temperature of the slide which, was prepared at room temperature before observation. After ROI 5 the gliding speed stabilizes. • Pixels lengths were measured to be 166nm/pixel using a stage micrometer. • After the files have downloaded, a simple command line entry will convert the images to a movie. Mencoder must be installed. ls > list.txt | mencoder mf://@list.txt -mf w=496:h=658:fps=30:type=png -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell -o output.avi • Upload of these files were made possible through the figshare API.