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Confining Domains Lead to Reaction Bursts: Reaction Kinetics in the Plasma Membrane
Figure 4
The mean gap duration, or the time between subsequent bursts, as a function of model parameters, obtained by Monte Carlo simulations.
a. the effect of confinement strength on 
. 
varies between 
and 
. Other parameter values are: 
, 
, 
, 
, 
. In order to identify bursts, we considered 
, for 
, respectively. b. 
plotted against 
, with other parameters fixed at: 
, 
, 
, 
, 
. c. 
as a function of density. Parameters were fixed at: 
, 
, 
, 
, and 
varies between 0.05 and 2 molecules per compartment. Error bars in all plots are smaller than the data points. In b and c, 
simulation steps.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032948.g004