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Electrostatics-driven inflation of elastic icosahedral shells as a model for radial swelling of virus-like particles
Anže Lošdorfer Božič, Antonio Šiber
We develop a clear theoretical description of radial swelling in virus-like particles which delineates the importance of electrostatic contributions to swelling in absence of any c…
Varieties of charge distributions in coat proteins of ssRNA+ viruses
Anze Losdorfer Bozic, Rudolf Podgornik
A major part of the interactions involved in the assembly and stability of icosahedral, positive-sense single-stranded RNA (ssRNA+) viruses is electrostatic in nature, as can be in…
pH dependence of charge multipole moments in proteins
Anze Losdorfer Bozic, Rudolf Podgornik
Electrostatic interactions play a fundamental role in the structure and function of proteins. Due to ionizable amino acid residues present on the solvent-exposed surfaces of protei…
Statistical analysis of sizes and shapes of virus capsids and their resulting elastic properties
Anze Losdorfer Bozic, Antonio Siber, Rudolf Podgornik
From the analysis of sizes of approximately 130 small icosahedral viruses we find that there is a typical structural capsid protein, having a mean diameter of 5 nm and a mean thick…
How simple can a model of an empty viral capsid be? Charge distributions in viral capsids
Anze Losdorfer Bozic, Antonio Siber, Rudolf Podgornik
We investigate and quantify salient features of the charge distributions on viral capsids. Our analysis combines the experimentally determined capsid geometry with simple models fo…