3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
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…
physics.bio-ph2025
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…
cond-mat.soft2025
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…