Illustration of virus-like particle self-assembly. (IMAGE)

University of Oxford

Illustration of virus-like particle self-assembly.

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Illustration of virus-like particle self-assembly. Protein building blocks can repeatedly join and leave the growing particle. When they form a closed face, multiple connections lock the building blocks into place, providing stable intermediate structures from which the particle can continue to assemble. Structures rendered from PDB ID 7B3Y using ChimeraX software. The illustration was subsequently edited using Claude (Anthropic). Image credit: Roi Asor.

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Roi Asor.

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