image The capsid is composed 60 asymmetric units made of 9 proteins (T=9), for a total of 540 capsid proteins.



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Icosahedric triangulation number is calculated following Caspar and Klug system

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Icosahedric capsids Virus symmetry and T number
T=1
T=2*
T=3
Pseudo T=3
T=4
T=7
T=9
T=13
T=16
T=21/pseudo T=21
T=25/pseudo T=25
T=27/pseudo T=27
T=28
T=31/pseudo T=31
T=75 bacterial carboxysome
T=169
Virus N4likevirus