Viral Self-Assembly as a Thermodynamic Process

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 4-

  Bruinsma, Robijn F ^a   Gelbart, William M ^a   Reguera, David ^a   Rudnick, Joseph ^a   Zandi, Roya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE ENERGY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPTIMIZATION; PROTEINS; SELF ASSEMBLY; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

CAPSID PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMIC PROCESS; VIRAL CAPSIDE;

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

CORE PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; THERMODYNAMICS; VIRUS CAPSID;

CAPSID; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; THERMODYNAMICS; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

EID: 0042199058     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.248101     Document Type: Article

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