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Confining Domains Lead to Reaction Bursts: Reaction Kinetics in the Plasma Membrane
Figure 3
Behavior of the ratio of the mean and standard deviation of the time between reactions in the presence of confining domains to that in the absence of confining domains, denoted by
and 
, respectively (see text). Data obtained by Monte Carlo simulations. a. the dependence of 
and 
on confinement strength characterized by 
. 
takes on values between 
and 
. Other parameter values are: 
, 
, 
, 
, 
. b. 
and 
as a function of reaction probability 
, with other parameters fixed at: 
, 
, 
, 
, 
. c. density dependence of 
and 
. In this case 
, 
, 
, 
, and the density 
varies between 0.05 and 2 molecules per compartment. Error bars in all plots are smaller than the data points.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032948.g003