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Kinetics of viral self-assembly: the role of ss RNA antenna | Tao Hu
; B. I. Shklovskii
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20 Nov 2006 | Subject: | Biomolecules | Abstract: | A big class of viruses self-assemble from a large number of identical capsid proteins with long flexible N-terminal tails and ss RNA. We study the role of the strong Coulomb interaction of positive N-terminal tails with ss RNA in kinetics of the virus self-assembly. Capsid proteins stick to unassembled chain of ss RNA (which we call "antenna") and slide on it towards the self-assembly site. We show that due to such one-dimensional diffusion the virus self-assembly is more than ten times faster than the case involving only three-dimensional diffusion. | Source: | arXiv, q-bio/0611066 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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