Nature Communications (May 2021)

Molecular exclusion limits for diffusion across a porous capsid

  • Ekaterina Selivanovitch,
  • Benjamin LaFrance,
  • Trevor Douglas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23200-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Molecular transport across physical barriers requires pores that connect to the environment. Here, the authors report on a solution based dynamic study into the effects of size and charge on the transport through the pores of virus-like particles derived from bacteriophage P22 using an encapsulated redox system.