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An Assembly-Line Mechanism for In-Vitro Encapsulation of Fragmented Cargo in Virus-Like Particles
Ayesha Amjad, Irina Tsvetkova, Lena G. Lowry +4
The ability of virus shells to encapsulate a wide range of functional cargoes, especially multiple cargoes - siRNAs, enzymes, and chromophores - has made them an essential tool in…
Impact of the RNA Binding Domain Localization of the Protein Shell on Virus Particle Stability
Mohammadamin Safdari, Siyu Li, Sanaz Panahandeh +2
The encapsulation of polyanions, whether single-stranded RNAs or synthetic polymers, is primarily driven by attractive electrostatic interactions between the positively charged, st…
General Solution for Elastic Networks on Arbitrary Curved Surfaces in the Absence of Rotational Symmetry
Yankang Liu, Siyu Li, Roya Zandi +1
Understanding crystal growth over arbitrary curved surfaces with arbitrary boundaries is a formidable challenge, stemming from the complexity of formulating non-linear elasticity u…
Switchable Conformation in Protein Subunits: Unveiling Assembly Dynamics of Icosahedral Viruses
Siyu Li, Guillaume Tresset, Roya Zandi
The packaging of genetic material within a protein shell, called the capsid, marks a pivotal step in the life cycle of numerous single-stranded RNA viruses. Understanding how hundr…
Dynamics of elongation of nematic tactoids in an electric field
Mohammadamin Safdari, Roya Zandi, Paul van der Schoot
Nematic tactoids are spindle-shaped droplets of a nematic phase nucleated in the co-existing isotropic phase. According to equilibrium theory, their internal structure and shape ar…
Biophysical Modeling of SARS-CoV-2 Assembly: Genome Condensation and Budding
Siyu Li, Roya Zandi
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spurred unprecedented and concerted worldwide research to curtail and eradicate…