The impact of viral RNA on the association rates of capsid protein assembly: Bacteriophage MS2 as a case study

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 400, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 935-947

  ElSawy, Karim M ^a   Caves, Leo S D ^a   Twarock, Reidun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Association rate; Brownian dynamics; MS2 virus; Virus assembly

Indexed keywords

CAPSID PROTEIN; DIMER; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MS2 VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; RNA BINDING; SIMULATION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS CAPSID;

MIRIDAE; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 77954386030     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.05.037     Document Type: Article

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