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Peplomer bulb shape and coronavirus rotational diffusivity
Recently, the rotational diffusivity of the coronavirus particle in suspension was calculated, from first principles, using general rigid bead-rod theory [M. A. Kanso, Phys. Fluids 32, 113101 (2020)]. We did so by beading the capsid and then also by replacing each of its bulbous spikes with a single...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8721624/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35002207 http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0048626 |
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author | Kanso, M. A. Chaurasia, V. Fried, E. Giacomin, A. J. |
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description | Recently, the rotational diffusivity of the coronavirus particle in suspension was calculated, from first principles, using general rigid bead-rod theory [M. A. Kanso, Phys. Fluids 32, 113101 (2020)]. We did so by beading the capsid and then also by replacing each of its bulbous spikes with a single bead. However, each coronavirus spike is a glycoprotein trimer, and each spike bulb is triangular. In this work, we replace each bulbous coronavirus spike with a bead triplet, where each bead of the triplet is charged identically. This paper, thus, explores the role of bulb triangularity on the rotational diffusivity, an effect not previously considered. We thus use energy minimization for the spreading of triangular bulbs over the spherical capsid. The latter both translates and twists the coronavirus spikes relative to one another, and we then next arrive at the rotational diffusivity of the coronavirus particle in suspension, from first principles. We learn that the triangularity of the coronavirus spike bulb decreases its rotational diffusivity. For a typical peplomer population of 74, bulb triangularity decreases the rotational diffusivity by [Formula: see text]. |
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spelling | pubmed-87216242022-01-05 Peplomer bulb shape and coronavirus rotational diffusivity Kanso, M. A. Chaurasia, V. Fried, E. Giacomin, A. J. Phys Fluids (1994) ARTICLES Recently, the rotational diffusivity of the coronavirus particle in suspension was calculated, from first principles, using general rigid bead-rod theory [M. A. Kanso, Phys. Fluids 32, 113101 (2020)]. We did so by beading the capsid and then also by replacing each of its bulbous spikes with a single bead. However, each coronavirus spike is a glycoprotein trimer, and each spike bulb is triangular. In this work, we replace each bulbous coronavirus spike with a bead triplet, where each bead of the triplet is charged identically. This paper, thus, explores the role of bulb triangularity on the rotational diffusivity, an effect not previously considered. We thus use energy minimization for the spreading of triangular bulbs over the spherical capsid. The latter both translates and twists the coronavirus spikes relative to one another, and we then next arrive at the rotational diffusivity of the coronavirus particle in suspension, from first principles. We learn that the triangularity of the coronavirus spike bulb decreases its rotational diffusivity. For a typical peplomer population of 74, bulb triangularity decreases the rotational diffusivity by [Formula: see text]. AIP Publishing LLC 2021-03 2021-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8721624/ /pubmed/35002207 http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0048626 Text en © 2021 Author(s) Published under license by AIP Publishing. 1070-6631/2021/33(3)/033115/7/$30.00 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ). |
spellingShingle | ARTICLES Kanso, M. A. Chaurasia, V. Fried, E. Giacomin, A. J. Peplomer bulb shape and coronavirus rotational diffusivity |
title | Peplomer bulb shape and coronavirus rotational diffusivity |
title_full | Peplomer bulb shape and coronavirus rotational diffusivity |
title_fullStr | Peplomer bulb shape and coronavirus rotational diffusivity |
title_full_unstemmed | Peplomer bulb shape and coronavirus rotational diffusivity |
title_short | Peplomer bulb shape and coronavirus rotational diffusivity |
title_sort | peplomer bulb shape and coronavirus rotational diffusivity |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8721624/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35002207 http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0048626 |
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