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  • Title: Measurements of the self-assembly kinetics of individual viral capsids around their RNA genome.
    Author: Garmann RF, Goldfain AM, Manoharan VN.
    Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A; 2019 Nov 05; 116(45):22485-22490. PubMed ID: 31570619.
    Abstract:
    Self-assembly is widely used by biological systems to build functional nanostructures, such as the protein capsids of RNA viruses. But because assembly is a collective phenomenon involving many weakly interacting subunits and a broad range of timescales, measurements of the assembly pathways have been elusive. We use interferometric scattering microscopy to measure the assembly kinetics of individual MS2 bacteriophage capsids around MS2 RNA. By recording how many coat proteins bind to each of many individual RNA strands, we find that assembly proceeds by nucleation followed by monotonic growth. Our measurements reveal the assembly pathways in quantitative detail and also show their failure modes. We use these results to critically examine models of the assembly process.
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