Viruses are nanoscale entities containing a nucleic acid genome encased in a protein shell
called a capsid and in some cases are surrounded by a lipid bilayer membrane. This review …

In recent years, plant virus capsids, the protein shells that form the surface of a typical plant
virus particle, have emerged as useful biotemplates for material synthesis. All virus capsids …

We describe experimental investigations of the structure of two-dimensional spherical
crystals. The crystals, formed by beads self-assembled on water droplets in oil, serve as …

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We show that the icosahedral packings of protein capsomeres proposed by Caspar and
Klug for spherical viruses become unstable to faceting for sufficiently large virus size, in …

Abstract VIPERdb (http://viperdb. scripps. edu) is a relational database and a web portal for
icosahedral virus capsid structures. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive resource specific …

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is an enveloped DNA virus with a spherical capsid (or core). The
capsid is constructed from 120 copies of the homodimeric capsid protein arranged with T= 4 …

With few exceptions, the shells (capsids) of sphere-like viruses have the symmetry of an
icosahedron and are composed of coat proteins (subunits) assembled in special motifs, the …

We develop a class of models with which we simulate the assembly of particles into T1
capsidlike objects using Newtonian dynamics. By simulating assembly for many different …

A significant impediment to the widespread use of noninvasive in vivo vascular imaging
techniques is the current lack of suitable intravital imaging probes. We describe here a new …