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Virus Assembly Pathways Inside a Host Cell
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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 interaction between the positive charges on capsid proteins and the negative charges on the genome. Despite its importance and many decades of intense research, how the virus selects and packages its native RNA inside the crowded environment of a host cell cytoplasm in the presence of an abundance of nonviral RNA and other anionic polymers has remained a mystery. In this paper, we perform a series of simulations to monitor the growth of viral shells and find the mechanism by which cargo-coat protein interactions can impact the structure and stability of the viral shells. We show that coat protein subunits can assemble around a globular nucleic acid core by forming nonicosahedral cages, which have been recently observed in assembly experiments involving small pieces of RNA. We find that the resulting cages are strained and can easily be split into fragments along stress lines. This suggests that such metastable nonicosahedral intermediates could be easily reassembled into the stable native icosahedral shells if the larger wild-type genome becomes available, despite the presence of a myriad of nonviral RNAs.
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virus
self-assembly
viral shells
elastic energy
kinetic pathway
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