Classification and evolutionary trends of icosahedral viral capsids (Q1001534)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5508948
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5508948 |
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Classification and evolutionary trends of icosahedral viral capsids (English)
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18 February 2009
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Summary: A classification of icosahedral viral capsids is proposed. We show how the self-organization of capsids during their formation implies a definite composition of their elementary building blocks. The exact number of hexamers with three different admissible symmetries is related to capsid sizes, labelled by their \(T\)-numbers. Simple rules determining these numbers for each value of \(T\) are deduced and certain consequences concerning the probabilities of mutations and evolution of viruses are discussed.
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viral capsid classification
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self-organized agglomeration
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symmetry
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