Research Article

A Multiscale Model for Virus Capsid Dynamics

Figure 3

Illustration of virus surfaces constructed by using the proposed geometric flow approach in conjunction with the coarse-grained model and the symmetry assembly. Upper row: Surfaces generated from a facet patch by using symmetry assembly. Lower row: Surfaces generated without the use of symmetry. From left to right: Cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV) with helical symmetry (1cgm), Tobacco mosaic virus coat protein four-layer aggregate with symmetry (1ei7), Nodamura virus with icosahedral symmetry (1nov), and Viral toxin pneumolysin with circular symmetry (2bk1).
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