Figure 1.

(a) Wireframe representation of the trimer subunit of MVM with purple patches denoting the sticky subdomains as established by Reguera et al.⁷ (b) Side-view of the truncated prism used as a coarse-grained model in our simulations. (c)–(f) Top-views of the first, second, third, and the fourth layers in (b). The white, green, and red colored beads denote the sticky hydrophobic, repulsive excluded volume, and positively charged subdomains, respectively. (g) Coarse-grained united atom model of the flexible polyelectrolyte chain.