THE OBSERVED FORM OF COATED VESICLES AND A MATHEMATICAL COVERING PROBLEM

被引：10

作者：

TARNAI, T ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] UNIV CAMBRIDGE,DEPT ENGN,CAMBRIDGE CB2 1PZ,ENGLAND

来源：

JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | 1991年 / 218卷 / 03期

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D O I：

10.1016/0022-2836(91)90691-X

中图分类号：

Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];

学科分类号：

071010 ; 081704 ;

摘要：

A connection is made between (1) the observed structures of clathrin cages and (2) the mathematical problem of determination of the smallest diameter of n equal circles by which the surface of a sphere can be covered without gaps. For different numbers n of circles, it is found that the various clathrin polyhedra identified so far provide topologically the same configurations as the proven solutions of the sphere-covering problem for some n or improve on the currently best conjectured solutions for other n. Thus a study of some biological structures has, in this case, given additional insight into a mathematical problem. © 1991.

引用

页码：485 / 488

页数：4

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