ArticleScience advances2021
Virus self-assembly proceeds through contact-rich energy minima.
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- Viruses under mechanical force: Implications and applications.Virus research · 2026Review
- Dynamics of viral self-assembly, viral genome packaging, and virus-cell interactions studied by optical tweezers.European biophysics journal : EBJ · 2026Review
- Many paths, similar destinations: viruses and bacterial microcompartments form polyhedra inside cells.Journal of virology · 2026Review
- Zooming into Disease at the Nanoscale: High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy in Biomedical Discovery.ACS nano · 2026Review
- Atomic force microscopy at the forefront: unveiling foodborne viruses with biophysical tools.Npj viruses · 2025Review
- Discovery of bimodal hepatitis B virus ribonuclease H and capsid assembly inhibitors.PLoS pathogens · 2025Article
- Small Molecule Assembly Agonist Alters the Dynamics of Hepatitis B Virus Core Protein Dimer and Capsid.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2024Article
- Chemically Tagging Cargo for Specific Packaging inside and on the Surface of Virus-like Particles.ACS nano · 2024Article
- Optical Tweezers to Study Viruses.Sub-cellular biochemistry · 2024Review
- 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
- The Histone Chaperones SET/TAF-1β and NPM1 Exhibit Conserved Functionality in Nucleosome Remodeling and Histone Eviction in a Cytochrome c-Dependent Manner.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Adeno-associated virus vector system controlling capsid expression improves viral quantity and quality.iScience · 2023Article
- Looking at Biomolecular Interactions through the Lens of Correlated Fluorescence Microscopy and Optical Tweezers.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
Self-assembly of supramolecular complexes such as viral capsids occurs prominently in nature. Nonetheless, the mechanisms underlying these processes remain poorly understood. Here, we uncover the assembly pathway of hepatitis B virus (HBV), applying fluorescence optical tweezers and high-speed atomic force microscopy. This allows tracking the assembly process in real time with single-molecule resolution. Our results identify a specific, contact-rich pentameric arrangement of HBV capsid proteins as a key on-path assembly intermediate and reveal the energy balance of the self-assembly process. Real-time nucleic acid packaging experiments show that a free energy change of ~1.4
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