Icosahedral packing of RNA viral genomes

Details Icosahedral packing of RNA viral genomes Icosahedral packing of RNA viral genomes

2003-01-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0301305v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages revtex, 4 eps figures

Scientific paper

Recent studies reveal that certain viruses package a portion of their genome in a manner that mirrors the icosahedral symmetry of the protein container, or capsid. Graph theoretical constraints forbid exact realization of icosahedral symmetry. This paper proposes a model for the determination of quasi-icosahedral genome structures and discusses the connection between genomic structure and viral assembly kinetics.

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