PICORNAVIRIDAE – Designing Model and Visualization Concepts in Virology
Educational T=3 [and T=pseudo3] Virus Structure Model [assembly unit 06/08]
Topographic [artistic] visualization based on the canyon hypothesis [Rossmann: 1989] to give a sensory experience of the human rhinovirus 14. According to the hypothesis the canyon is protecting the virus against docking attempts of large antibodies. Cellular receptors are small enough to fit into the gap.