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

Distinguishing between cooperative and unimodal downhill protein folding
F Huang, S Sato, TD Sharpe, L Ying, AR Fersht
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2007)
104
Structural biology of the tumor suppressor p53 and cancer-associated mutants
AC Joerger, AR Fersht
ADVANCES IN CANCER RESEARCH, VOL 97
(2007)
97
General structural motifs of amyloid protofilaments (vol 103, pg 16248, 2006)
N Ferguson, J Becker, H Tidow, S Tremmel, TD Sharpe, G Krause, J Flinders, M Petrovich, J Berriman, H Oschkinat, AR Fersht
P NATL ACAD SCI USA
(2006)
103
General structural motifs of amyloid protofilaments
N Ferguson, J Becker, H Tidow, S Tremmel, TD Sharpe, G Krause, J Flinders, M Petrovich, J Berriman, H Oschkinat, AR Fersht
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2006)
103
Pro-sequence-assisted protein folding.
J Eder, AR Fersht
Molecular microbiology
(2006)
16
Structural basis for understanding oncogenic p53 mutations and designing rescue drugs.
AC Joerger, HC Ang, AR Fersht
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2006)
103
FRET analysis of denaturation of engrailed homeodomain
F Huang, AR Fersht
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2006)
232
Effects of oncogenic mutations and DNA response elements on the binding of p53 to p53-binding protein 2 (53BP2)
H Tidow, DB Veprintsev, SMV Freund, AR Fersht
The Journal of biological chemistry
(2006)
281
Characterization of the native and fibrillar conformation of the human Nα‐acetyltransferase ARD1
N Sánchez-Puig, AR Fersht
Protein Sci
(2006)
15
Phi-analysis of the folding of the B domain of protein A using multiple optical probes.
S Sato, TL Religa, AR Fersht
Journal of Molecular Biology
(2006)
360