Viruses avoid exposure of the viral genome to harmful agents with the help of a protective
protein shell known as the capsid. A secondary effect of this protective barrier is that …

The shape and mechanical properties of viral capsids play an important role in several
biological processes during the virus life cycle. In particular, to become infective, many …

Under many in vitro conditions, some small viruses spontaneously encapsidate a single
stranded (ss) RNA into a protein shell called the capsid. While viral RNAs are found to be …

Viruses undergo mesoscopic morphological changes as they interact with host interfaces
and in response to chemical cues. The dynamics of these changes, over the entire temporal …

Virus capsids and crystalline surfactant vesicles are two examples of self-assembled shells
in the nano-to micrometer size range. Virus capsids are particularly interesting since they …

Although virus capsids appear as rigid, symmetric particles in experimentally determined
structures; biochemical studies suggest a significant degree of structural flexibility in the …

Previous self-assembly experiments on a model icosahedral plant virus have shown that,
under physiological conditions, capsid proteins initially bind to the genome through an en …

Morphologic diversity is observed across all families of viruses. However, these supra-
molecular assemblies are produced most of the time in a spontaneous way through complex …

Viruses are known to tolerate wide ranges of p H and salt conditions and to withstand
internal pressures as high as 100 atmospheres. In this paper we investigate the mechanical …

Simple RNA viruses self-assemble spontaneously and encapsulate their genome into a
shell called the capsid. This process is mainly driven by the attractive electrostatics …