Our major research programme concerns the folding, stability and activity of proteins. We apply a broad multi-disciplinary approach that combines methods and ideas of molecular biology and physical-organic chemistry. We use techniques including protein engineering, DNA cloning, sequencing and mutagenesis, cell culture, gene and peptide synthesis, spectroscopy, rapid reaction techniques, multi-dimensional NMR (we have a 500, 600, 700 and an 800 MHz spectrometers) and x-ray protein crystallography.

Current major projects include: protein folding, misfolding and disease; drug discovery; and structure-activity relationships of proteins involved in cancer and disease.

Although now emeritus, I am still fully active in research with long term funding, including an MRC Programme Grant.

Publications

Structure of Human MDM4 N-Terminal Domain Bound to a Single-Domain Antibody
GW Yu, M Vaysburd, MD Allen, G Settanni, AR Fersht
Journal of Molecular Biology
(2008)
385
Physical and functional interactions between human mitochondrial single-stranded DNA-binding protein and tumour suppressor p53
TS Wong, S Rajagopalan, FM Townsley, SM Freund, M Petrovich, D Loakes, AR Fersht
Nucleic Acids Research
(2008)
37
14-3-3 activation of DNA binding of p53 by enhancing its association into tetramers
S Rajagopalan, AM Jaulent, M Wells, DB Veprintsev, AR Fersht
Nucleic acids research
(2008)
36
PHYS 27-Experimental resolution of the early events in the folding of B domain of Protein A
DM Vu, SH Brewer, S Sato, AR Fersht, RB Dyer
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2008)
236
A sequential assignment procedure for proteins that have intermediate line widths in MAS NMR spectra: amyloid fibrils of human CA150.WW2.
J Becker, N Ferguson, J Flinders, B-J van Rossum, AR Fersht, H Oschkinat
Chembiochem
(2008)
9
Targeted rescue of a destabilized mutant of p53 by an in silico screened drug.
FM Boeckler, AC Joerger, G Jaggi, TJ Rutherford, DB Veprintsev, AR Fersht
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2008)
105
Conservation of Transition State Structure in Fast Folding Peripheral Subunit-Binding Domains
TD Sharpe, N Ferguson, CM Johnson, AR Fersht
Journal of Molecular Biology
(2008)
383
From the first protein structures to our current knowledge of protein folding: Delights and scepticisms
AR Fersht
Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
(2008)
9
Structural Biology of the Tumor Suppressor p53
AC Joerger, AR Fersht
Annual review of biochemistry
(2008)
77
Redesigning Enzymes by Site‐Directed Mutagenesis
AR Fersht, GP Winter
Ciba Found Symp
(2008)
111