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- Title
Icosahedral capsid formation by capsomers and short polyions.
- Authors
Zhang, Ran; Linse, Per
- Abstract
Kinetical and structural aspects of the capsomer-polyion co-assembly into icosahedral viruses have been simulated by molecular dynamics using a coarse-grained model comprising cationic capsomers and short anionic polyions. Conditions were found at which the presence of polyions of a minimum length was necessary for capsomer formation. The largest yield of correctly formed capsids was obtained at which the driving force for capsid formation was relatively weak. Relatively stronger driving forces, i.e., stronger capsomer-capsomer short-range attraction and∕or stronger electrostatic interaction, lead to larger fraction of kinetically trapped structures and aberrant capsids. The intermediate formation was investigated and different evolving scenarios were found by just varying the polyion length.
- Publication
The Journal of chemical physics, 2013, Vol 138, Issue 15, p154901
- ISSN
1089-7690
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1063/1.4799243