Gaussian curvature and the budding kinetics of enveloped viruses
Fig 2
Brownian Dynamics simulation of the budding of an enveloped virus using a coarse-grained model of the lipid molecules and capsid proteins of the alpha virus (square inset).
The strength ϵgg of the interaction between the capsid proteins was 2kB T. A) Snapshot of the simulation at an early stage of the bud. B) Snapshot of the bud during pausing.