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Title: On virus growth and form

Journal Article · · Physics Reports
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  1. University of California, Riverside, CA (United States)
  2. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (United States)
  3. Ames Laboratory, and Iowa State University, Ames, IA (United States)
  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)

Here, we review approaches aimed at deciphering the physical mechanisms responsible for viral structure and assembly. We discuss the basic principles of condensed matter physics, macroscopic electrostatics and elastomechanics as they apply to nanosized two-dimensional biomolecular shells with spherical topology and icosahedral symmetry, as well as their proper extension to nonspherical structures pertinent to retroviruses. We examine the relation between the virus structure, the physical interactions that are driving their (self)assembly and the thermodynamics of transition from an isotropic protein solution to the assembled shell state, and discuss the driving forces for large-scale structural reorganizations characterizing maturation processes in the already assembled nano-shells. We furthermore review physical models corresponding to the condensed states of confined genome-carrying biopolymers in viral nano-shells during virus self-assembly and host-cell infection processes, and show how the combination of discrete and continuum coarse grained mechanics, commonly used in the fundamental physical description of viruses, together with the pertinent description of generic long-range electrostatic and specific short-range interactions give insight into the details of structural order and mechanical properties of viruses and elucidates their role in nano-container and nano-machine functions.

Research Organization:
Ames Laboratory (AMES), Ames, IA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF); Army Research Office (ARO)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0010507; DMR-1719550; CMMT-1606336; W911NF-17-1-0329; EAGER-1740432
OSTI ID:
1735975
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1604486
Journal Information:
Physics Reports, Vol. 847; ISSN 0370-1573
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 73 works
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Host RNAs, including transposons, are encapsidated by a eukaryotic single-stranded RNA virus journal January 2012
Impact of Hydrogen Bonding in the Binding Site between Capsid Protein and MS2 Bacteriophage ssRNA journal June 2017
Solving a Levinthal's paradox for virus assembly identifies a unique antiviral strategy journal March 2014
Revealing the density of encoded functions in a viral RNA journal February 2015
A new paradigm for the roles of the genome in ssRNA viruses journal June 2013
Dynamic Allostery Controls Coat Protein Conformer Switching during MS2 Phage Assembly journal February 2010
Sequence-Specific, RNA–Protein Interactions Overcome Electrostatic Barriers Preventing Assembly of Satellite Tobacco Necrosis Virus Coat Protein journal March 2013
A Simple, RNA-Mediated Allosteric Switch Controls the Pathway to Formation of a T=3 Viral Capsid journal June 2007
The Role of Packaging Sites in Efficient and Specific Virus Assembly journal July 2015
Prediction of Hydrodynamic and Other Solution Properties of Rigid Proteins from Atomic- and Residue-Level Models journal August 2011
A two-stage mechanism of viral RNA compaction revealed by single molecule fluorescence journal April 2013
Asymmetric cryo-EM reconstruction of phage MS2 reveals genome structure in situ journal August 2016
In situ structures of the genome and genome-delivery apparatus in a single-stranded RNA virus journal December 2016
Hamiltonian path analysis of viral genomes journal May 2018
Self-control of self-assembly journal February 1991
Computational Design of Self-Assembling Protein Nanomaterials with Atomic Level Accuracy journal May 2012
Stability and Shape of Hepatitis B Virus Capsids In Vacuo journal August 2008
High-resolution mass spectrometry of viral assemblies: Molecular composition and stability of dimorphic hepatitis B virus capsids journal June 2008
Measurement of the accurate mass of a 50 MDa infectious virus: Measurement of the accurate mass of a 50 MDa infectious virus journal August 2016
Studying 18 MDa Virus Assemblies with Native Mass Spectrometry journal February 2013
Growth Rates of Protein Crystals journal February 2012
Predicting protein crystallization from a dilute solution property journal July 1994
Are there pathways for protein folding? journal January 1968
STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS: Taking a Walk on a Landscape journal July 2001
Satellite tobacco mosaic virus RNA: structure and implications for assembly journal February 2001
Self-assembly of brome mosaic virus capsids journal March 1983
Nucleation and growth phases in the polymerization of coat and scaffolding subunits into icosahedral procapsid shells journal March 1993
A Theoretical Model Successfully Identifies Features of Hepatitis B Virus Capsid Assembly journal November 1999
In vitro papillomavirus capsid assembly analyzed by light scattering journal August 2004
Self-Assembly of Brome Mosaic Virus Capsids: Insights from Shorter Time-Scale Experiments journal October 2008
Viral self-assembly pathway and mechanical stress relaxation journal May 2017
Principles of Crystal Nucleation and Growth journal January 2003
RNA Encapsidation by SV40-Derived Nanoparticles Follows a Rapid Two-State Mechanism journal March 2012
How does your virus grow? Understanding and interfering with virus assembly journal December 2003
Classical Nucleation Theory of Virus Capsids journal March 2006
Kinetics of viral self-assembly: Role of the single-stranded RNA antenna journal May 2007
To Build a Virus on a Nucleic Acid Substrate journal April 2013
From Virus Structure to Chromatin: X-ray Diffraction to Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy journal June 2010
Assembly of the Particle of Tobacco Mosaic Virus from RNA and Disks of Protein journal January 1971
High Cooperativity of the SV40 Major Capsid Protein VP1 in Virus Assembly journal August 2007
The crystallographic structure of brome mosaic virus journal March 2002
Brome mosaic virus, good for an RNA virologist's basic needs journal March 2000
Design of virus-based nanomaterials for medicine, biotechnology, and energy journal January 2016
Curvature Dependence of Viral Protein Structures on Encapsidated Nanoemulsion Droplets journal February 2008
Virus-like Particles Templated by DNA Micelles: A General Method for Loading Virus Nanocarriers journal June 2010
Encapsulation of Nanoparticles in Virus Protein Shells book October 2014
Mixed-subunit capsids can be assembled in vitro with coat protein subunits from two cucumoviruses journal April 1995
The self-assembly of spherical viruses with mixed coat proteins journal April 1968
Micelle formation and crystallization as paradigms for virus assembly journal January 2005
Pathways for Virus Assembly around Nucleic Acids journal September 2014
In Vivo Intracellular pH Measurements in Tobacco and Arabidopsis Reveal an Unexpected pH Gradient in the Endomembrane System journal October 2013
Brome Mosaic Virus Polymerase-Like Protein 2a Is Directed to the Endoplasmic Reticulum by Helicase-Like Viral Protein 1a journal May 2000
Subcellular Localization and Rearrangement of Endoplasmic Reticulum by Brome Mosaic Virus Capsid Protein journal January 2011
Three-Dimensional Analysis of a Viral RNA Replication Complex Reveals a Virus-Induced Mini-Organelle journal August 2007
Imaging and Quantitation of a Succession of Transient Intermediates Reveal the Reversible Self-Assembly Pathway of a Simple Icosahedral Virus Capsid journal November 2016
Nanofluidic Devices with 8 Pores in Series for Real-Time, Resistive-Pulse Analysis of Hepatitis B Virus Capsid Assembly journal April 2017
Multiple Pathways in Capsid Assembly journal April 2018
Visualizing HIV-1 Assembly journal July 2011
Encapsidation of turnip crinkle virus is defined by a specific packaging signal and RNA size. journal January 1997
Direct Evidence for Packaging Signal-Mediated Assembly of Bacteriophage MS2 journal January 2016
Mathematical virology: a novel approach to the structure and assembly of viruses journal October 2006
The Impact of Viral RNA on Assembly Pathway Selection journal August 2010
The three-dimensional structure of the bacterial virus MS2 journal May 1990
Interferometric optical detection and tracking of very small gold nanoparticles at a water-glass interface journal January 2006
High-speed nanoscopic tracking of the position and orientation of a single virus journal November 2009
Measurements of the self-assembly kinetics of individual viral capsids around their RNA genome journal September 2019
Nucleation Rates in a New Phenomenological Model journal April 2006
Protein Crystals in Adenovirus Type 5-Infected Cells: Requirements for Intranuclear Crystallogenesis, Structural and Functional Analysis journal August 2008
Towards in cellulo virus crystallography journal February 2018
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