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

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2008.10.019MaRDI QIDQ1617439zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Kasper Peeters, Anne Taormina

Publication date 8 November 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1029, http://dro.dur.ac.uk/10747/1/10747.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

virusesbiomolecular assemblynormal modes of vibration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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