21 citations
2 papers
physics.bio-ph2014★ 21 cited
RNA Control of HIV-1 Particle Size Polydispersity
Cendrine Faivre-Moskalenko, Julien Bernaud, Audrey Thomas +7
HIV-1, an enveloped RNA virus, produces viral particles that are known to be much more heterogeneous in size than is typical of non-enveloped viruses. We present here a novel strat…
q-bio.BM2013★ 21 cited
Entropic control of particle sizes during viral self-assembly
Martin Castelnovo, Delphine Muriaux, Cendrine Faivre-Moskalenko
Morphologic diversity is observed across all families of viruses. Yet these supra-molecular assemblies are produced most of the time in a spontaneous way through complex molecular…