some general capsid questions

[raneynickel]

What kind of proteins are the capsid shells made of?

Will a collection of capsid proteins in soln' generally form an icosahedral (or other geometric shape, depending on protein..) shape; Will they from encapsulating shapes on their own?

can capsid shells be manufactured?

[canalon]

Yes capsid proteins can self asemble in solution.
I am not sure what you mean by manufactured, but the genes can be cloned in plasmids, and protein can be synthesized without anything else from plamids.

[raneynickel]

Yes capsid proteins can self asemble in solution.
I am not sure what you mean by manufactured, but the genes can be cloned in plasmids, and protein can be synthesized without anything else from plamids.

Re self assembly:
do you have any source material handy, something I can look at that might explain the nuts and bolts?

[jyaron]

This paper may be of some use:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1962 ... d_RVDocSum

[GUL]

i want 2 know about the supramolecular interactions in dna self assembly