(A)
In vitro assembly of HIV CA protein into tubes monitored by absorbance (red diamonds, with thick grey lines indicating error bars) at indicated subunit concentrations compared to best fits using a rate equation model (black lines). (B) Light scattering for HPV LP1 assembly from Casini et al. [44] (light grey diamonds) compared to a continuous time Monte Carlo trajectory using parameters optimized to the data (solid black line). The dashed curve corresponds to a trajectory with parameter values reduced by 2.5 × 105 from their optimal values and negative values truncated to zero, to simulate a threshold level of signal to background scattering. (A) is reprinted with permission from Biochemistry, 51, 4416-4428 (2012), A Trimer of Dimers Is the Basic Building Block for Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 Capsid Assembly, Tsiang, Niedziela-Majka, Hung, Jin, Hu, Yant, Samuel, Liu, Sakowicz, Copyright (2012) American Chemical Society. (B) is reprinted with permission from Phys. Biol., 7, 045005 (2010), Kumar and Schwartz, A parameter estimation technique for stochastic self-assembly systems and its application to human papillomavirus self-assembly, Copyright (2010) IOP Publishing.