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On the Mathematics of Virus Shell Assembly

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Berger, Bonnie
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Shor, Peter W.
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July 1994
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MIT-LCS-TM-519
Abstract
A local rule theory is developed which shows that the self-assembly of icosahedral virus shells may depend on only the lower-level interactions of a protein subunit with its neighbors, i.e. local rules, rather than on larger structural building blocks. The local rule theory provides a framework for understanding the assembly of icosahedral viruses.
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