Sentences with phrase «icosahedral shell»
The researchers were able to show how five different kinds of proteins formed three different kinds of shapes: hexagons, pentagons and a stacked pair of hexagons, which assembled together into a 20 - sided icosahedral shell.
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The structure of Zika virus is similar to other known flavivirus structures, except for the ~ 10 amino acids that surround the Asn154 glycosylation site in each of the 180 envelope glycoproteins that make up the icosahedral shell.
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Correct assembly of the icosahedral core of HBV is required for replication; reverse transcription of the RNA pre-genome takes place within the completed capsid, the protein shell of the core.