3 papers
cond-mat.soft2018
Nanoparticles Binding to Lipid Membranes: from Vesicle-Based Gels to Vesicle Inversion and Destruction
Derek A. Wood, Sarah Zuraw-Weston, Ian K. Torres +9
Cells offer numerous inspiring examples where proteins and membranes combine to form complex structures that are key to intracellular compartmentalization, cargo transport, and spe…
physics.bio-ph2017
Why enveloped viruses need cores -- the contribution of a nucleocapsid core to viral budding
Guillermo R. Lazaro, Suchetana Mukhopadhyay, Michael F. Hagan
During the alphavirus lifecycle, a nucleocapsid core buds through the cell membrane to acquire an outer envelope of lipid membrane and viral glycoproteins. However, the presence of…
q-bio.SC2016
Allosteric control in icosahedral capsid assembly
Guillermo R. Lazaro, Michael F. Hagan
During the lifecycle of a virus, viral proteins and other components self-assemble to form a symmetric protein shell called a capsid. This assembly process is subject to multiple c…