Figure 12:

Assembly simulations around spherical templates with a diameter of 10 and 11 nm. The top figures show the fraction of templates with N bound VP1 pentamers as a function of the fractional simulation time, t. The bottom shows the pairwise distance distributions of VP1 pentamers in each case. A peak is observed at N = 10 pentamers on the 10 nm template owing to lack of available binding sites, as compared to the 11 nm case. The lack of available template binding sites is shown by the lack of icosahedral symmetry seen in the pair distribution (especially at $t=\raisebox{1ex}{$2$}\!\left/ \!\raisebox{-1ex}{$5$}\right.$).