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Kinetics of viral self-assembly: the role of ss RNA antenna
Tao Hu, B. I. Shklovskii
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 intera…
Electrostatic theory of viral self-assembly: a toy model
Tao Hu, Rui Zhang, B. I. Shklovskii
Viruses self-assemble from identical capsid proteins and their genome consisting, for example, of a long single stranded (ss) RNA. For a big class of T = 3 viruses capsid proteins…
Hopping conductivity of a suspension of flexible wires in an insulator
Tao Hu, B. I. Shklovskii
We study the hopping conductivity in a composite made of Gaussian coils of flexible metallic wires randomly and isotropically suspended in an insulator at such concentrations that…
Hopping conductivity of a suspension of nanowires in an insulator
Tao Hu, B. I. Shklovskii
We study the hopping conduction in a composite made of straight metallic nanowires randomly and isotropically suspended in an insulator. Uncontrolled donors and acceptors in the in…
Conductivity of a suspension of nanowires in a weakly conducting medium
Tao Hu, A. Yu. Grosberg, B. I. Shklovskii
We study macroscopic electrical or thermal conductivity of a composite made of straight or coiled nanowires suspended in poorly conducting medium. We assume that volume fraction of…
How does a protein search for the specific site on DNA: the role of disorder
Tao Hu, B. I. Shklovskii
Proteins can locate their specific targets on DNA up to two orders of magnitude faster than the Smoluchowski three-dimensional diffusion rate. This happens due to non-specific adso…