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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 3.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Transl Med. 2011 Jul 13;3(91):91ra63. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3002304

Table 1.

Glossary of abbreviations.

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