Rapid prediction of crucial hotspot interactions for icosahedral viral capsid self-assembly by energy landscape atlasing validated by mutagenesis

Ruijin Wu, Rahul Prabhu, Aysegul Ozkan +1

Icosahedral viruses have their infectious genome encapsulated by a shell assembled by a multiscale process, starting from an integer multiple of 60 viral capsid or coat protein (VP…