The twenty-four near-instabilities of Caspar-Klug viruses

Details The twenty-four near-instabilities of Caspar-Klug viruses The twenty-four near-instabilities of Caspar-Klug viruses

2008-04-27

arxiv.org/abs/0804.4275v2

Phys. Rev. E 78 (2008) 031908

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Biomolecules

5 pages, 4 figures; v2: improved presentation, version published in Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

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-frequency spectrum in this approximation, namely the existence of a plateau of 24 near zero-modes with universal group theory content.

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