Phage-induced alignment of membrane proteins enables the measurement and structural analysis of residual dipolar couplings with dipolar waves and lambda-maps.
Park, S.H., Son, W.S., Mukhopadhyay, R., Valafar, H., Opella, S.J.(2009) J.Am.Chem.Soc. 131: 14140-14141
- PubMed: 19761238 
- DOI: 10.1021/ja905640d
- PubMed Abstract: 
At pH > 6 added filamentous bacteriophage fd is compatible with many of the detergents used to solubilize membrane proteins for solution NMR studies of membrane proteins and, therefore, serves as an alignment media. In combination with strained polya ...