Group theory of icosahedral virus capsid vibrations: A top-down approach
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Group theory of icosahedral virus capsid vibrations: a top-down approach.
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...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Theoretical Biology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0022-5193
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.10.019