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Packaged DNA genome sets the long-range electrostatic anisotropy of a virus
Jeffrey C. Everts, Anže Božič, Rudolf Podgornik
Viruses are among the most highly charged objects in biology, and electrostatic interactions permeate nearly every stage of their life cycle. At the same time, an empty icosahedral…
A closed-form theory of charge-regulated electrostatic interactions between anisotropically charged spheres
Anže Božič
Proteins and many other colloids carry ionizable surface groups that are both spatially inhomogeneous (patchy) and pH-responsive (charge-regulating). In the description of the elec…
Asphericity lifts the degeneracy among ordering mechanisms on curved surfaces
Anže Božič
Spherical surfaces conceal the one-body signature of particle organization: area-uniform, conductor, and curvature-weighted measures coincide there, so the ordering mechanism leave…
Anisotropic DLVO-like interaction for charge patchiness in colloids and proteins
Andraž Gnidovec, Emanuele Locatelli, Simon Čopar +2
The behaviour and stability of soft and biological matter depend significantly on electrostatic interactions, as particles such as proteins and colloids acquire a charge when dispe…
Normalized topological indices discriminate between architectures of branched macromolecules
Domen Vaupotič, Jules Morand, Luca Tubiana +1
Branching architecture characterizes numerous systems, ranging from synthetic (hyper)branched polymers and biomolecules such as lignin, amylopectin, and nucleic acids to tracheal a…
Scaling properties of RNA as a randomly branching polymer
Domen Vaupotič, Angelo Rosa, Luca Tubiana +1
Formation of base pairs between the nucleotides of an RNA sequence gives rise to a complex and often highly branched RNA structure. While numerous studies have demonstrated the fun…
Measure of distance and overlap between two arbitrary ellipses on a sphere
Andraž Gnidovec, Anže Božič, Urška Jelerčič +1
Various packing problems and simulations of hard and soft interacting particles, such as microscopic models of nematic liquid crystals, reduce to calculations of intersections and…
Global order parameters for particle distributions on the sphere
Anze Bozic, Stefano Franzini, Simon Copar
Topology and geometry of a sphere create constraints for particles that lie on its surface which they otherwise do not experience in Euclidean space. Notably, the number of particl…
Electrostatic interaction between SARS-CoV-2 virus and charged electret fibre
Leili Javidpour, Anze Bozic, Ali Naji +1
While almost any kind of face mask offers some protection against particles and pathogens of different sizes, the most efficient ones make use of a layered structure where one or m…
Mechanical design of apertures and the infolding of pollen grain
Anze Bozic, Antonio Siber
When pollen grains become exposed to the environment, they rapidly desiccate. To protect themselves until rehydration, the grains undergo characteristic infolding with the help of…
Synonymous mutations reduce genome compactness in icosahedral ssRNA viruses
Luca Tubiana, Anže Lošdorfer Božič, Cristian Micheletti +1
Recent studies have shown that single-stranded viral RNAs fold into more compact structures than random RNA sequences with similar chemical composition and identical length. Based…
Electrostatic stability and encapsidation of charged nano-droplets
Leili Javidpour, Anže Lošdorfer Božič, Ali Naji +1
We investigate electrostatic stability of charged droplets, modeled as permeable, charged spheres, and their encapsidation in thin, arbitrarily charged nano-shells, immersed in a n…
Energies and pressures in viruses: contribution of nonspecific electrostatic interactions
Antonio Šiber, Anže Lošdorfer Božič, Rudolf Podgornik
We summarize some aspects of electrostatic interactions in the context of viruses. A simplified but, within well defined limitations, reliable approach is used to derive expression…
Electrostatic self-energy of a partially formed spherical shell in salt solution: application to stability of tethered and fluid shells -- viruses and vesicles
Anze Losdorfer Bozic, Antonio Siber, Rudolf Podgornik
We investigate the electrostatics of a partially formed, charged spherical shell in a salt solution. We solve the problem numerically at the Poisson-Boltzmann level and analyticall…