Self-Assembled Synthetic Viral Capsids from a 24-mer Viral Peptide Fragment

摘要

Natural plant viruses are rodlike or spherical nanoassemblies with discrete size and morphology, in which genome nucleic acids are encapsulated by self-assembled coat proteins (capsids). Most capsids in spherical viruses have an icosa-hedral symmetry and the number and arrangement of subunits are related to the triangulation number (T number), which is derived from quasi-equivalence theory.