The twenty-four near-instabilities of Caspar-Klug viruses
Biomolecules
2008-09-11 v2
Abstract
Group theoretical arguments combined with normal mode analysis techniques are applied to a coarse-grained approximation of icosahedral viral capsids which incorporates areas of variable flexibility. This highlights a remarkable structure of the low-frequency spectrum in this approximation, namely the existence of a plateau of 24 near zero-modes with universal group theory content.
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@article{arxiv.0804.4275,
title = {The twenty-four near-instabilities of Caspar-Klug viruses},
author = {François Englert and Kasper Peeters and Anne Taormina},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.4275},
year = {2008}
}
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5 pages, 4 figures; v2: improved presentation, version published in Phys. Rev. E