# Kinetics of viral self-assembly: the role of ss RNA antenna

Source: [Kinetics of viral self-assembly: the role of ss RNA antenna](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa27b02c2a3760193c43ba>)

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Authors: Tao Hu, B. I. Shklovskii

Published: 2006-11-20T20:27:14.000Z

## Abstract

A big class of viruses self-assemble from a large number of identical capsid proteins with long flexible N-terminal tails and ss RNA. We study the role of the strong Coulomb interaction of positive N-terminal tails with ss RNA in the kinetics of the in vitro virus self-assembly. Capsid proteins stick to unassembled chain of ss RNA (which we call "antenna") and slide on it towards the assembly site. We show that at excess of capsid proteins such one-dimensional diffusion accelerates self-assembly more than ten times. On the other hand at excess of ss RNA, antenna slows self-assembly down. Several experiments are proposed to verify the role of ss RNA antenna.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0611066>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/q-bio/0611066.pdf>)