Group theory of icosahedral virus capsid vibrations: a top-down approach

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2008.10.019zbMATH Open1400.92049arXiv0806.1029OpenAlexW1638554454WikidataQ45388621 ScholiaQ45388621MaRDI QIDQ1617439FDOQ1617439

Authors: Kasper Peeters, Anne Taormina 

Publication date: 8 November 2018

Published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We explore the use of a top-down approach to analyse the dynamics of icosahedral virus capsids and complement the information obtained from bottom-up studies of viral vibrations available in the literature. A normal mode analysis based on protein association energies is used to study the frequency spectrum, in which we reveal a universal plateau of low-frequency modes shared by a large class of Caspar-Klug capsids. These modes break icosahedral symmetry and are potentially relevant to the genome release mechanism. We comment on the role of viral tiling theory in such dynamical considerations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1029

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zbMATH Keywords

virusesbiomolecular assemblynormal modes of vibration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biomechanics (92C10) Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15)

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