Conformations and membrane-driven self-organization of rodlike fd virus particles on freestanding lipid membranes

Membrane-mediated interactions control the behavior of filamentous fd virus particles on freestanding lipid bilayers.

Depletion Interaction Mediated by fd-Virus: on the Limit of Low Density and Derjaguin Approximation

Depletion potentials induced by the rod-like fd-virus between colloidal probe spheres and a flat glass wall were measured using total internal reflection microscopy. The objective of this investigation was to determine the limits of the approximations used for the theoretical description of the depletion pair potential. Data were obtained at rod concentrations as high as 15 times their overlap concentration and the size ratio between the rod length and the sphere radius increased up to