ArticleeLife2020
Shape selection and mis-assembly in viral capsid formation by elastic frustration.
Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Kinetic Description of Viral Capsid Self-Assembly Using Mesoscopic Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Unsupervised modeling of mutational landscapes of adeno-associated viruses viability.BMC bioinformatics · 2024Article
- Effect of ionic strength on the assembly of simian vacuolating virus capsid protein around poly(styrene sulfonate).The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2023Article
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- Microcompartment assembly around multicomponent fluid cargoes.The Journal of chemical physics · 2022Article
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- Equilibrium mechanisms of self-limiting assembly.Reviews of modern physicsArticle
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Abstract
The successful assembly of a closed protein shell (or capsid) is a key step in the replication of viruses and in the production of artificial viral cages for bio/nanotechnological applications. During self-assembly, the favorable binding energy competes with the energetic cost of the growing edge and the elastic stresses generated due to the curvature of the capsid. As a result, incomplete structures such as open caps, cylindrical or ribbon-shaped shells may emerge, preventing the successful replication of viruses. Using elasticity theory and coarse-grained simulations, we analyze the conditions required for these processes to occur and their significance for empty virus self-assembly. We find that the outcome of the assembly can be recast into a universal phase diagram showing that viruses with high mechanical resistance cannot be self-assembled directly as spherical structures. The results of our study justify the need of a maturation step and suggest promising routes to hinder viral infections by inducing mis-assembly.
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