Viral Self-Assembly as a Thermodynamic Process
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Viral self-assembly as a thermodynamic process.
The protein shells, or capsids, of nearly all spherelike viruses adopt icosahedral symmetry. In the present Letter, we propose a statistical thermodynamic model for viral self-assembly. We find that icosahedral symmetry is not expected for viral capsids constructed from structurally identical protein subunits and that this symmetry requires (at least) two internal "switching" configurations of ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.90.248101