A tale of two symmetrons: Rules for construction of icosahedral capsids from trisymmetrons and pentasymmetrons

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 109-116

  Sinkovits, Robert S ^a,b   Baker, Timothy S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Capsomer; Icosahedral symmetry; Large DNA virus; Pentasymmetron; Triangulation number; Trisymmetron; Virus capsid structure

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; CAPSOMER; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DNA STRUCTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR SIZE; PENTASYMMETRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRISYMMETRON; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY;

CAPSID; CAPSID PROTEINS; DNA VIRUSES; MODELS, MOLECULAR;

DNA VIRUSES; MIRIDAE;

EID: 77950518553     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: 10958657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2009.12.003     Document Type: Article

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