Polymorphism in the assembly of polyomavirus capsid protein VP1

DM Salunke, DL Caspar, RL Garcea - Biophysical journal, 1989 - cell.com
Polyomavirus major capsid protein VP1, purified after expression of the recombinant gene in
Escherichia coli, forms stable pentamers in low-ionic strength, neutral, or alkaline solutions …

Physics of viral shells

RF Bruinsma, WS Klug - Annu. Rev. Condens. Matter Phys., 2015 - annualreviews.org
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Possible global minimum lattice configurations for Thomson's problem of charges on a sphere

EL Altschuler, TJ Williams, ER Ratner, R Tipton… - Physical Review Letters, 1997 - APS
What configuration of N point charges on a conducting sphere minimizes the Coulombic
energy? JJ Thomson posed this question in 1904. For N≤ 112, numerical methods have …

Iterated dynamic neighborhood search for packing equal circles on a sphere

X Lai, D Yue, JK Hao, F Glover, Z Lü - Computers & Operations Research, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, we investigate the equal circle packing problem on a sphere (ECPOS), which
consists in packing N equal non-overlapping circles on a unit sphere such that the radius of …

Structure, thermodynamic and transport properties of liquid MgSiO3: Comparison of molecular models and laboratory results

FJ Spera, MS Ghiorso, D Nevins - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2011 - Elsevier
Liquid MgSiO3 is a model for the Earth's magma ocean and of remnant melt present near
the core–mantle boundary. Here, models for molten MgSiO3 are computed employing …

The densest packing of equal circles on a sphere

DA Kottwitz - Acta Crystallographica Section A: Foundations of …, 1991 - journals.iucr.org
Conjectured solutions of the packing problem are found by usingexact'equations to refine
approximations generated by the repulsion-energy method. Initial positions are selected …

Visible Mie scattering from hollow silica particles with particulate shells

LA Fielding, OO Mykhaylyk, A Schmid… - Chemistry of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A series of colloidal nanocomposite dispersions are synthesized by alcoholic dispersion
polymerization of styrene in the presence of an ultrafine silica sol. The original core/shell …

The optimal packing of circles on a sphere

BW Clare, DL Kepert - Journal of mathematical chemistry, 1991 - Springer
The closest packing of x circles on the surface of a sphere is calculated in the same way that
the stereochemical arrangement of atoms around a central atom is determined. A number of …

Pattern formation in icosahedral virus capsids: the papova viruses and Nudaurelia capensis beta virus

CJ Marzec, LA Day - Biophysical journal, 1993 - cell.com
The capsids of the spherical viruses all show underlying icosahedral symmetry, yet they
differ markedly in capsomere shape and in capsomere position and orientation. The capsid …

Characterization of polymer-silica nanocomposite particles with core–shell morphologies using Monte Carlo simulations and small angle X-ray scattering

JA Balmer, OO Mykhaylyk, A Schmid, SP Armes… - Langmuir, 2011 - ACS Publications
A two-population model based on standard small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) equations
is verified for the analysis of core–shell structures comprising spherical colloidal particles …