Structural puzzles in virology solved with an overarching icosahedral design principle

R Twarock, A Luque - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
… Using viruses from different families, we demonstrate that the icosahedral designs embodied
… science where icosahedral structures play an important role, and also provides designs for …

Accurate design of megadalton-scale two-component icosahedral protein complexes

JB Bale, S Gonen, Y Liu, W Sheffler, D Ellis, C Thomas… - Science, 2016 - science.org
… The ability to design megadalton-scale materials with atomic-… requires larger assemblies;
icosahedral symmetry is the highest … We set out to design two-component icosahedral protein …

Design of a hyperstable 60-subunit protein icosahedron

Y Hsia, JB Bale, S Gonen, D Shi, W Sheffler, KK Fong… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
… specified, highly ordered icosahedral structures would open … the computational design of a
25-nanometre icosahedral … of icosahedral particles nearly identical to the design model. The …

How to design an icosahedral quasicrystal through directional bonding

EG Noya, CK Wong, P Llombart, JPK Doye - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
… By contrast, the specificity in the primitive icosahedral designs precludes the possibility of
a competing one-component crystal and both primitive icosahedral systems were able to …

Design and characterization of an icosahedral protein cage formed by a double-fusion protein containing three distinct symmetry elements

KA Cannon, VN Nguyen, C Morgan… - ACS Synthetic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
… trimeric faces of the icosahedron would be. Of these, one design showed further promise …
void around where the C3 axis of the icosahedron would be in our design model. As such, we …

Modular design of icosahedral metal clusters

NA Bulienkov, DL Tytik - Russian Chemical Bulletin, 2001 - Springer
… one-dimensional algorithm of modular design does describe the structure of icosahedral
clusters. The angles between the adjacent C5 axes in the icosahedron are equal to 63.5, which …

Icosadeltahedral geometry of geodesic domes, fullerenes and viruses: a tutorial on the t-number

A Šiber - Symmetry, 2020 - mdpi.com
… examination of geometry of icosahedral geodesic domes, … The superposition of fullerene
and dome designs is used to … designs without a clearly visible geometry of the icosahedron. …

Minimal design principles for icosahedral virus capsids

M Martín-Bravo, JMG Llorente, J Hernández-Rojas… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
… -packing, will require more complex designs. This situation highlights a direct relationship
… The present contribution extends this idea to icosahedral viral capsids. We will design cost …

Polyicosahedricity: icosahedron to icosahedron of icosahedra growth pathway for bimetallic (Au Ag) and trimetallic (Au Ag M; M Pt, Pd, Ni) supraclusters; …

BK Teo, H Zhang - Coordination chemistry reviews, 1995 - Elsevier
design rule and growth sequence. This cluster of clusters growth mechanism from a single
icosahedron (13 atoms) to an icosahedron … atom to a 13-atom icosahedron, as depicted in Fig. …

Design of four component T= 4 tetrahedral, octahedral, and icosahedral protein nanocages through programmed symmetry breaking

S Lee, RD Kibler, Y Hsia, AJ Borst, A Philomin… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
… With an 75 nm diameter, our T=4 icosahedral design has considerably more interior volume
available for packaging nucleic acid and other cargoes than previously designed 1 and 2 …