From f4594af429fb595ae55911dec355bc661ef2e103 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: don Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:19:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] tweak length and complex formation formalisms git-svn-id: svn+ssh://hemlock.ucr.edu/srv/svn/misc/trunk/origins_of_life@527 25fa0111-c432-4dab-af88-9f31a2f6ac42 --- kinetic_formalism.Rnw | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kinetic_formalism.Rnw b/kinetic_formalism.Rnw index a1fa109..cedf6cf 100644 --- a/kinetic_formalism.Rnw +++ b/kinetic_formalism.Rnw @@ -488,8 +488,20 @@ rm(grid) \newpage \subsubsection{Length Backwards} + +In a model membrane, the dissociation constant decreases by a factor +of approximately 3.2 per carbon increase in acyl chain length (Nichols +1985). Unfortunatly, the known experimental data only measures chain +length less than or equal to the bulk lipid, and does not exceed it, +and is only known for one bulk lipid species (DOPC). + + +The dissociation constant decreases by approximately 3.2 per carbon +increase in acyl chain length (Nichols 1985). We assume that this +decrease is in relationship to the average vesicle length. + \begin{equation} - l_b = 3.2^{\left|l_\mathrm{ves}-l_\mathrm{monomer}\right|} + l_b = 3.2^{\left|\left-l_\mathrm{monomer}\right|} \label{eq:length_backward} \end{equation} @@ -522,7 +534,7 @@ rm(grid) \newpage \subsubsection{Complex Formation Backward} \begin{equation} - CF1_b=1.5^{CF1_\mathrm{ves} CF1_\mathrm{monomer}-\left|CF1_\mathrm{ves} CF1_\mathrm{monomer}\right|} + CF1_b=1.5^{\left CF1_\mathrm{monomer}-\left|\left CF1_\mathrm{monomer}\right|} \label{eq:complex_formation_backward} \end{equation} -- 2.39.2