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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
卷 111, 期 29, 页码 8477-8485出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp068384o
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The effect of salt on the location and structure of a flexible polyelectrolyte confined inside a viral capsid and the Donnan equilibrium of the salt across the capsid have been examined using a coarse-grained model solved by Monte Carlo simulations. The polyelectrolyte was represented by a linear jointed chain of charged beads, and the capsid was represented by a spherical shell with embedded charges. At low salt concentration, the polyelectrolyte was strongly adsorbed onto the inner capsid surface, whereas at high salt concentration it was located preferentially in the central part of the capsid. Under the condition of equal Debye screening length, the electrostatic screening increased as the valence of the polyelectrolyte counterion was increased. The distribution of the small cations and anions was unequal across the capsid. An excess of polyelectrolyte counterions occurred inside the capsid, and the excess increased with the salt concentration. A simplified representation of the small ions through the use of the screened Coulomb potential provided only a qualitatively correct picture; the electrostatic screening originating from the small ions was exaggerated.
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