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- Title
Symmetry-adapted digital modeling III. Coarse-grained icosahedral viruses.
- Authors
Janner, A.
- Abstract
Considered is the coarse-grained modeling of icosahedral viruses in terms of a three-dimensional lattice (the digital modeling lattice) selected among the projected points in space of a six-dimensional icosahedral lattice. Backbone atomic positions (Cα's for the residues of the capsid and phosphorus atoms P for the genome nucleotides) are then indexed by their nearest lattice point. This leads to a fine-grained lattice point characterization of the full viral chains in the backbone approximation (denoted as digital modeling). Coarse-grained models then follow by a proper selection of the indexed backbone positions, where for each chain one can choose the desired coarseness. This approach is applied to three viruses, the Satellite tobacco mosaic virus, the bacteriophage MS2 and the Pariacoto virus, on the basis of structural data from the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank. In each case the various stages of the procedure are illustrated for a given coarse-grained model and the corresponding indexed positions are listed. Alternative coarse-grained models have been derived and compared. Comments on related results and approaches, found among the very large set of publications in this field, conclude this article.
- Subjects
BIOMACROMOLECULES; MOSAIC viruses; PHOSPHORUS
- Publication
Acta Crystallographica. Section A, Foundations & Advances, 2016, Vol 72, Issue 3, p324
- ISSN
2053-2733
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1107/S205327331600276X