FIGURE 12.
Kinetics of the completion of the full capsid for 1stm. (a) Average concentration of all oligomer sizes as a function of time. At t = 0 all proteins are monomers and they rapidly react to form larger oligomers. The most conspicuous feature of the distribution is that there are very few oligomers of intermediate sizes. (b) Concentration of the most common oligomers: 1- (solid line), 2- (dashed line), 6- (×), and 60-mers (○) as a function of time. All other oligomers have negligible concentrations. (c) Time for the completion of SPMV capsids with κ = 10−3. For this value of κ, the number of dissociation events is almost negligible, as shown in Fig. 10.