A multiscale model for virus capsid dynamics

Authors:
Changjun Chen;Rishu Saxena;Guo-Wei Wei
Affiliations:
Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI;Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI;Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Venue:
Journal of Biomedical Imaging - Special issue on mathematical methods for images and surfaces
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Viruses are infectious agents that can cause epidemics and pandemics. The understanding of virus formation, evolution, stability, and interaction with host cells is of great importance to the scientific community and public health. Typically, a virus complex in association with its aquatic environment poses a fabulous challenge to theoretical description and prediction. In this work, we propose a differential geometry-based multiscale paradigm to model complex biomolecule systems. In our approach, the differential geometry theory of surfaces and geometric measure theory are employed as a natural means to couple the macroscopic continuum domain of the fluid mechanical description of the aquatic environment from the microscopic discrete domain of the atomistic description of the biomolecule. A multiscale action functional is constructed as a unified framework to derive the governing equations for the dynamics of different scales. We show that the classical Navier-Stokes equation for the fluid dynamics and Newton's equation for the molecular dynamics can be derived from the least action principle. These equations are coupled through the continuum-discrete interface whose dynamics is governed by potential driven geometric flows.