M. R. N. Murthy: Difference between revisions

After spending 4 years, which gave the Murthy the experience and confidence to initiate his own studies in [[structural biology]], he returned to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. During the initial year, he was associated with the Department of Physics following which he joined the [[Molecular Biophysics]] Unit of the same Institute, where he has remained since. He initiated structural studies on isometric [[viruses]] in India at a time when research on macromolecular [[protein]] crystallography was being initiated for the first time in the country by Professor M. Vijayan at the Molecular Biophysics Unit of IISc and Dr. K.K. Kannan at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay. At that time, there were no experimental facilities for carrying out macromolecular structural work at the Indian Institute of Science, or anywhere else in the country. Murthy, along with Professor [[M. Vijayan]], established [[X-ray diffraction]] facility at the Molecular Biophysics Unit, which served as the national nucleus for crystallographic work in the initial decade of such structural work in India. His success is reflected in the successful conclusion of several structural studies on virus particles, which are the only such studies performed in the twentieth century in South East Asia. He successfully determined the structure of Sesabania Mosaic virus.

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