capsomer

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• Turnip yellow mosaic virus, as shown on the left, has a roughly spherical capsid comprising 12 pentameric capsomers and 20 hexameric capsomers.

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• An antiviral agent would work at the molecular level, a scale below the disk-shaped capsomers of the UCLA model.

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• To see why, consider a capsid that has just one more capsomer than the number M at a minimum.

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• In each run of the model, a fixed number N of capsomers slid about on a sphere.

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• Although the same protein makes up both types of capsomer, it adopts three different shapes to form pentamers and hexamers, as shown on the right.

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• Figure 2 shows how the energy per capsomer varies with N for two cases: E = 0 (black curve) and E = kT (blue curve).

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• Their building bricks are capsomers: regular polygonal groupings of capsid proteins.

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• The ability of capsomer proteins to form pentamers and hexamers with equal ease spreads out the free-energy minima, making them easier for evolution to find.

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• The outer shell of the virus is composed of numerous capsomers that organize to form a protective layer.

• During viral assembly, individual capsomers come together to form the complete capsid around the viral genome.

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Etymology