Twenty-four near-instabilities of Caspar-Klug viruses.
Group theoretical arguments combined with normal mode analysis techniques are applied to a coarse-grained approximation of icosahedral viral capsids which incorporates areas of variable flexibility. This highlights a remarkable structure of the low-frequency spectrum in this approximation, namely, the existence of a plateau of 24 near zero modes with universal group theory content.
Service de Physique Théorique and The International Solvay Institutes, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
François
F
Englert
Kasper
K
Peeters
Anne
A
Taormina
D001703:Biophysics / Q000379:methods*; D036022:Capsid Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D030562:Databases, Protein; D004548:Elasticity; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D010942:Plant Viruses / Q000737:chemistry; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D019065:Virus Assembly; D014780:Viruses / Q000737:chemistry*
D036022:Capsid Proteins; D011506:Proteins; D014764:Viral Proteins