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Twenty-four near-instabilities of Caspar-Klug viruses (2008)
Journal Article
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

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-f... Read More about Twenty-four near-instabilities of Caspar-Klug viruses.

Mesons versus quasi-normal modes: Undercooling and overheating (2008)
Journal Article
Paredes, A., Peeters, K., & Zamaklar, M. (2008). Mesons versus quasi-normal modes: Undercooling and overheating. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2008(05), Article 027. https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/05/027

In holographic models of gauge theories with matter, there generically exists a first order phase transition in which mesons dissociate. We perform a careful analysis of the meson and quasi-particle spectra in the overheated resp. undercooled regimes... Read More about Mesons versus quasi-normal modes: Undercooling and overheating.

Dynamics of Icosahedral Viruses: What Does Viral Tiling Theory Teach Us? (2008)
Journal Article
Peeters, K., & Taormina, A. (2008). Dynamics of Icosahedral Viruses: What Does Viral Tiling Theory Teach Us?. Computational and mathematical methods in medicine, 9(3-4), 211-220. https://doi.org/10.1080/17486700802168270

We present a top-down approach to the study of the dynamics of icosahedral virus capsids, in which each protein is approximated by a point mass. Although this represents a rather crude coarse-graining, we argue that it highlights several generic feat... Read More about Dynamics of Icosahedral Viruses: What Does Viral Tiling Theory Teach Us?.