Modeling

Introduction

Our modeling part consists of two main parts:

• The mathematical modeling of virus production and infection based on a model of ordinary differential equations (ODE).
• The modeling of the three dimensional structure of the virus capsid based on X-ray crystallography data.

The first model describes dynamical behavior of the virus production in terms of the law of mass action (Sidorenko & Reichl 2004). Therefore the temporal change concentrations of titrated plasmids, synthesized proteins, replicated single-stranded DNA and formed virus capsids and finally concentration of viral particles are simulated using MathWorks® MATLAB R2010b.
Virus infection is modeled in a similar way but receptor binding has to be considered (Gurevich 2004). Starting with a given concentration of infectious virus particles complexes with dimerized receptors are built which can be internalized to the cytoplasm and transduction takes place.
The third part follows a different approach: X-ray crystallography data (Xie et al. 2002) has been used to reproduce the three dimensional structure of the virus. The resulting 3D visualization is obtained using the open source software PyMOL (Schrödinger 2010).

Click on the pictures below to get to the corresponding modeling pages!

Virus Production Model

Virus Infection Model

Structure Modeling

References

Mathematical Modeling

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• Endres, D., & Zlotnick, A. (2002). Model-Based Analysis of Assembly Kinetics for Virus Capsids or Other Spherical Polymers. Biophysical Journal, 83(2), 1217-1230. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(02)75245-4.
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Structure Modeling

• Schrödinger, L., 2010. The {PyMOL} Molecular Graphics System, Version~1.3r1.
• Xie, Q. et al., 2002. The atomic structure of adeno-associated virus (AAV-2), a vector for human gene therapy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 99(16), pp.10405-10. Available at: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=124927&tool=pmcentrez&rendertype=abstract.
• Xie, Q. et al., 2003. Structure determination of adeno-associated virus 2: three complete virus particles per asymmetric unit. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography, 59(6), pp.959-970. Available at: http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0907444903005675.