Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Physical properties of the HIV-1 capsid from all-atom molecular dynamics simulations

  • Juan R. Perilla,
  • Klaus Schulten

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15959
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The large and complex HIV-1 capsid modulates several molecular events during HIV-1’s infective cycle. Here the authors use all-atom molecular dynamic simulations to probe the biophysical properties of the genome-free HIV-1 capsid.