Abstract
Viruses have been of interest to mankind since their discovery as small infectious agents in the nineteenth century. Because many viruses cause diseases to humans and agriculture, they were rigorously studied for biological and medical purposes. Viruses have remarkable properties such as the symmetry and self-assembly of their protein envelope, maturation into infectious virions, structural stability, and disassembly. Solution X-ray scattering can probe structures and reactions in solutions, down to subnanometer spatial resolution and millisecond temporal resolution. It probes the bulk solution and reveals the average shape and average mass of particles in solution and can be used to study kinetics and thermodynamics of viruses at different stages of their life cycle. Here we review recent work that demonstrates the capabilities of solution X-ray scattering to study in vitro the viral life cycle.
| Original language | American English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 41-48 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Biophysical Reviews |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Feb 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work received financial support from the NIH, grants numbers R01AI118933 and RO1GM108021. D.K. received fellowship support from the Nano Center of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Rudin Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics (IUPAB) and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
Keywords
- HBV
- SAXS
- SV40
- Self-assembly
- Time-resolved SAXS
- Virology