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Theory of morphological transformation of viral capsid shell during the maturation process in the HK97 bacteriophage and similar viruses.

O.V. Konevtsova
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Vladimir Lorman
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S.B. Rochal
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We consider the symmetry and physical origin of collective displacement modes playing a crucial role in the morphological transformation during the maturation of the HK97 bacteriophage and similar viruses. It is shown that the experimentally observed hexamer deformation and pentamer twist in the HK97 procapsid correspond to the simplest irreducible shear strain mode of a spherical shell. We also show that the icosahedral faceting of the bacteriophage capsid shell is driven by the simplest irreducible radial displacement field. The shear field has the rotational icosahedral symmetry group I while the radial field has the full icosahedral symmetry I_{h}. This difference makes their actions independent. The radial field sign discriminates between the icosahedral and the dodecahedral shapes of the faceted capsid shell, thus making the approach relevant not only for the HK97-like viruses but also for the parvovirus family. In the frame of the Landau-Ginzburg formalism we propose a simple phenomenological model valid for the first reversible step of the HK97 maturation process. The calculated phase diagram illustrates the discontinuous character of the virus shape transformation. The characteristics of the virus shell faceting and expansion obtained in the in vitro and in vivo experiments are related to the decrease in the capsid shell thickness and to the increase of the internal capsid pressure.
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O.V. Konevtsova, Vladimir Lorman, S.B. Rochal. Theory of morphological transformation of viral capsid shell during the maturation process in the HK97 bacteriophage and similar viruses.. Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2016, 93 (5), pp.052412. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.93.052412⟩. ⟨hal-01319073⟩
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