Table 1.

A Poisson distribution of CHGB subunits among vesicles and the most probable stoichiometry of a functional channel.

	Fraction of vesicles have fewer than N monomers, P (k < N)							Stopped-flow data
	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
λ, <CHGB>/vesicle
0.8	0.81	0.95	0.99	1	1	1	1	1
1.67	0.503	0.765	0.911	0.972	0.993	0.998	1	0.912
2	0.406	0.677	0.857	0.947	0.958	0.983	0.996	0.846
4	0.092	0.238	0.434	0.629	0.785	0.889	0.949	0.481
8	0.003	0.014	0.042	0.1	0.191	0.313	0.453	0.19
Total variances	0.583	0.143	0.024	0.044	0.112	0.208	0.318

Bold value represents the optimal fitting for the experimental data.