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SUBMITTER: May ER
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3117158 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
May Eric R ER Aggarwal Ankush A Klug William S WS Brooks Charles L CL
Biophysical journal 20110601 11
The long wavelength, low-frequency modes of motion are the relevant motions for understanding the continuum mechanical properties of biomolecules. By examining these low-frequency modes, in the context of a spherical harmonic basis set, we identify four elastic moduli that are required to describe the two-dimensional elastic behavior of capsids. This is in contrast to previous modeling and theoretical studies on elastic shells, which use only the two-dimensional Young's modulus (Y) and the bendi ...[more]