Atom level model of HK97 virus capsid packed with DNA (VIDEO)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

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All-atom simulation trajectory of a fully packaged HK97 particle (“twist” packaged model). A quadrant of the protein capsid, colored in shades of blue, is removed to show the packaged DNA genome, colored in shades of red. Ions are shown as colored spheres with sodium shown in yellow, chloride in blue and magnesium in green. For clarity, only a fraction of all ions present in the system is shown.

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Aleksei Aksimentiev

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Credit to Aleksei Aksimentiev, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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