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Polymer packaging and ejection in viral capsids: shape matters
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We use a mesoscale simulation approach to explore the impact of different capsid geometries on the packagin and ejection dynamics of polymers of different flexibility. We find that both packing and ejection times are faster for flexible polymers. For such polymers a sphere packs more quickly and ejects more slowly than an ellipsoid. For semiflexible polymers, however, the case relevant to DNA, a sphere both packs and ejects more easily. We interpret our results by considering both the thermod...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.208102
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Office of Naval Research
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- Publisher:
- American Physical Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Physical Review Letters Journal website
- Volume:
- 96
- Issue:
- 20
- Pages:
- Article 208102
- Publication date:
- 2006-05-01
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1079-7114
- ISSN:
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0031-9007
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- American Physical Society
- Copyright date:
- 2006
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- Citation: Ali, I., Marenduzzo, D. & Yeomans, J. M. (2005). 'Polymer packaging and ejection in viral capsids: shape matters', Physical Review Letters 96 (20), 208102. [Available at http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v96/e208102].
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