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. 2014 Oct 27;118(47):13513–13526. doi: 10.1021/jp508970q

Table 3. Fibril Primary Nucleation Rate, Critical Nucleation Rate, and Maximum Growth Rate, Elongation Rate, and Secondary Nucleation Rate for Crowder Volume Fractions ϕ = 0.00, 0.10, and 0.20 and Crowder Diameters 5, 20, and 40 Å and Total Crowder Surface Area Obtained by Fitting Simulation Data to Eqs 611.

  crowder size, crowder volume fraction, and total crowder surface area
    D = 40 Å D = 40 Å D = 20 Å D = 20 Å D = 5 Å D = 5 Å
  no crowders ϕ = 0.10 ϕ = 0.20 ϕ = 0.10 ϕ = 0.20 ϕ = 0.10 ϕ = 0.20
kinetic parameters ϕ = 0.00 96 × 10–4 Å2 192 × 10–4 Å2 192 × 10–4 Å2 384 × 10–4 Å2 786 × 10–4 Å2 1536 × 10–4 Å2
kn (M–1 time–1) 0.21 ± 0.06 0.25 ± 0.10 0.24 ± 0.06 0.20 ± 0.09 0.25 ± 0.05 0.25 ± 0.09 0.46 ± 0.18
knc (M–1 time–1) 0.03 ± 0.01 0.04 ± 0.01 0.07 ± 0.01 0.07 ± 0.01 0.12 ± 0.02 0.15 ± 0.03 0.26 ± 0.02
rmax (peptides time–1) 0.05 ± 0.02 0.08 ± 0.02 0.13 ± 0.02 0.13 ± 0.02 0.24 ± 0.04 0.29 ± 0.05 0.51 ± 0.04
k+ (M–1 time–1) 1.40 ± 0.44 2.17 ± 0.35 3.31 ± 0.40 3.42 ± 0.43 5.85 ± 0.78 13.48 ± 2.94 11.38 ± 2.03
k2 (M–2 time–1) 1.45 ± 0.46 2.53 ± 0.66 4.03 ± 0.64 3.97 ± 0.64 7.41 ± 1.58 4.87 ± 4.55 17.53 ± 10.33