Abstract
The self-assembly of polyhedral virus shells (capsids) provides a fascinating example of the complex processes that occur in the simplest of organisms. Little is known about the assembly mechanism, but the fact that different viruses adopt similar structures hints at common design principles and suggests that simplified models ought to be helpful in understanding the assembly process. In order to establish the viability of this approach we have carded out exploratory MD simulations that demonstrate the self-assembly of pentakisdodecahedral (60-faced) shells.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 231-235 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Computer Physics Communications |
Volume | 121 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1999 |
Event | Proceedings of the 1998 Europhysics Conference on Computational Physics (CCP 1998) - Granada, Spain Duration: 2 Sep 1998 → 5 Sep 1998 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was partly supported by an equipment grant from the Israel Science Foundation and by NIH grant no. RR12225.
Funding
This work was partly supported by an equipment grant from the Israel Science Foundation and by NIH grant no. RR12225.
Funders | Funder number |
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National Institutes of Health | |
Israel Science Foundation |