Structure of Filamentous Phage Particles and Their Components
	Stanley J. Opella Professor University of California, San Diego

Dr. Opella:

• Developed solid-state NMR for structural studies of intact virus particles
• Determined the atomic-resolution structures of the coat proteins in fd and Pf1 bacteriophage particles
• Determined the structure of the membrane bound form of fd coat protein in micelles and in phospholipid bilayers.
• Determined the structures of several peptide epitopes displayed on the N-terminus of fd coat protein. This was done in collaboration with Richard Perham.
• Earlier he collaborated with Lee Makowski on neutron diffraction and NMR studies of Pf1 coat protein structure and assembly.

Speaking in the special symposium on Phage Nanobiotechnology.