Table 1.

Thermodynamics of HBV assembly: experimental and calculated values. (Data from Ceres and Zlotnick, 2002.)

	[NaCl], M
Energy Per contact	0.15	0.3	0.5		Calculated
ΔG (kcal/mol)	−3.1 ± 0.1	−3.7 ± 0.2	−3.7 ± 0.2	−4.0 ± 0.2	−8.5 ± 0.8
ΔH (kcal/mol)	+2.0 ± 1.0	+4.3 ± 0.4	+6.1 ± 0.8	+6.2 ± 0.2	+9.4 ± 2.6
TΔS (kcal/mol)	+5.1 ± 1.1	+8.0 ± 0.6	+9.8 ± 1.0	+10.1 ± 0.4	+18 ± 3.7
ΔS [cal/(mol·deg)−1]	+17 ± 3.7	+27 ± 2.0	+33 ± 3.3	+34 ± 1.3	+60 ± 12
KD,apparent	14μM	1.9μM	1.8μM	0.77μM	0.14pM