fa |
Fraction of viruses or infection events affected by the drug |
fu |
Fraction of viruses or infection events unaffected by the drug |
[D] |
Drug concentration |
IC50 |
Drug concentration that leads to 50% inhibition |
m |
Slope parameter or Hill coefficient |
Kd |
Dissociation constant for a drug binding to an individual target enzyme molecule |
nT |
Average of total number of enzyme molecules per virion relevant to the inhibited reaction |
c |
Critical threshold number of functional enzyme molecules required for viral replication |
[V] |
Unbound virus concentration |
σ |
Standard deviation for nT
|
nmax |
Maximum total number of enzyme molecules per virion, usually set as > nT + 3σ
|
ni |
Given total number of enzyme molecules per virion relevant to the inhibited reaction |
fm |
Fraction of mutant plasmid transfected |
Pf |
Probability of obtaining functional enzyme multimers for a given fm
|
nF |
Total number of functional target molecules per virion relevant to the inhibited reaction |
RI |
Relative infectivity of phenotypically-mixed viruses compared to the wild type virus |