Figure 5. Transient trapping of proteins in clusters.

Sequence of snapshots corresponding to a simulated membrane of 1 μm² containing 50 nucleating active inclusions X (red) and 1000 diffusing P proteins (blue) in a lipid media (color code on the right side). The model parameters are τ = 0.5 s, λ = 3, and α = 0.5. The sequence only shows a 0.4 μm² subsection to observe the details of the cluster formation (green arrow) and destruction (red arrow) process. From left to right and top to bottom, the sequence covers the last 0.4 s of simulation (almost one time period τ).