Twenty-four near-instabilities of Caspar-Klug viruses

Englert, F.; Peeters, K.; Taormina, A.

Abstract

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.

Citation

Englert, F., Peeters, K., & Taormina, A. (2008). Twenty-four near-instabilities of Caspar-Klug viruses. Physical review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 78(3), Article 031908. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.78.031908

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2008
• Deposit Date: Feb 9, 2011
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 24, 2013
• Journal: Physical review . E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics
• Print ISSN: 1539-3755
• Electronic ISSN: 1550-2376
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 78
• Issue: 3
• Article Number: 031908
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.78.031908