Gaussian curvature and the budding kinetics of enveloped viruses
Fig 7
Solid red line: Diffusion current I from the exterior to the growing bud versus relative size ρ/ρM of the bud computed from Eq 17.
γ = 0.9 was the sole fitting parameter. The current and the growth parameter were normalized with respect to their maximum values. Black dots: assembly current obtained from the Brownian Dynamics simulation of Fig 2. Error bars were obtained by averaging over three runs. The strength ϵgg of the interaction between the capsid proteins was 6kBT. The black arrow indicates the location of the maximum of the current profile predicted by conventional diffusive transport theory (i.e. γ = 0 in Eq 11).