T=27/pseudo27 icosahedral capsid


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The capsid is composed 60 asymmetric units made of 27 proteins (T=27), for a total of 1620 capsid proteins.

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Icosahedric triangulation number is calculated following Caspar and Klug system


Sputnik virus capsid symmetry is a pseudo T=27 structure, because hexamers are formed by 3 subunits instead of 6.