FIG. 19.

(A) Assembly ‘phase diagram’ for the capsid model (B → ∞ model of the fluid capsule model). The boundaries between the different kinetics regimes discussed in the text are shown as a function of capsid size and supersaturation Φ/Φ_s = e^−βΔμ. The calculation was performed using Eqs. 68, 5, 71 with α = 1, and C2. We set ϵ_min = −15k_BT and $\lambda ={ϵ}_{\text{T}}/2a_0^{1/2}$ as in Fig. 18. (B), (C) TEM images of in vitro assembly of empty capsids from CCMV capsid proteins. (B) corresponds to productive assembly, while (C) corresponds to assembly of long-lived partial shells (the monomer starvation trap) that occurs under stronger subunit-subunit interactions. Images in (B) and (C) reproduced from (Zlotnick et al., 2000).