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cord-006951-tj22dh5o	Li, Siyu	The effect of RNA stiffness on the self-assembly of virus particles	2018-01-31		.txt	text/plain	4913	218	59	While viral RNAs are found to be compact and highly branched because of long distance base-pairing between nucleotides, recent experiments reveal that in a head-to-head competition between an ssRNA with no secondary or higher order structure and a viral RNA, the capsid proteins preferentially encapsulate the linear polymer! While branching makes the genome more compact, RNA base-pairing increases the effective Kuhn length of the RNA molecule, which could result in an increase of the free energy of RNA confinement, that is, the work required to encapsidate RNA, and thus less efficient packaging. In this paper, we vary the degree of branching as well as the effective Kuhn length and linear charge density of a model RNA, and study their impact on the optimal length of encapsulated genome by capsid proteins.	./cache/cord-006951-tj22dh5o.txt	./txt/cord-006951-tj22dh5o.txt