Figure 1

Kinetic of complex formation in the 2D and 3D models. The parameters of the simulation were as described in the main text. Although the simulations were carried out for 100000 steps, only the initial 5,000 steps are reported in this figure. Panel A, B and C represent the kinetics of monomer disappearance and dimer or trimer formation respectively. Panel D shows the complex size distribution at equilibrium in a double logarithmic scale. The number of complexes of any given size was averaged over last 1000 time steps; as a consequence large complexes may have, on average, an abundance of less than one.