Before revision:  We characterize this non-ideal behaviour in detail and characterize how the kinetic operation of the gate depends on the  toehold and adjacent domain lengths.
After revision:  We characterize this non-ideal behaviour in detail and characterize how the kinetic operation of the gate depends on the three distinct distinct DNA transitions that it is based on. We observe a exponential kinetic dependence on the toehold length of the competitive displacement operation, but that the gate operation time is only weakly dependent on both the toehold and adjacent domain lengths.