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

Experimental and Theoretical Evaluation of the Ethynyl Moiety as a Halogen Bioisostere.
R Wilcken, MO Zimmermann, MR Bauer, TJ Rutherford, AR Fersht, AC Joerger, FM Boeckler
ACS Chemical Biology
(2015)
10
Deconvoluting protein (un)folding structural ensembles using X-ray scattering, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulation
A Nasedkin, M Marcellini, TL Religa, SM Freund, A Menzel, AR Fersht, P Jemth, D van der Spoel, J Davidsson
Plos One
(2015)
10
Propagation of aggregated p53: Cross-reaction and coaggregation vs. seeding
G Wang, AR Fersht
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2015)
112
Mechanism of initiation of aggregation of p53 revealed by Φ-value analysis
G Wang, AR Fersht
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2015)
112
Profile of Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel, 2013 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry
AR Fersht
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2013)
110
MDMX contains an autoinhibitory sequence element
M Bista, M Petrovich, AR Fersht
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2013)
110
Small molecule induced reactivation of mutant p53 in cancer cells
X Liu, R Wilcken, AC Joerger, IS Chuckowree, J Amin, J Spencer, AR Fersht
Nucleic Acids Res
(2013)
41
Reply to Campos and Muñoz: Why phosphate is a bad buffer for guanidinium chloride titrations.
AR Fersht, M Petrovich
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2013)
110
Denaturation (Proteins)
AR Fersht
(2013)
Don't waste good methods on bad buffers and ambiguous data
F Huang, CM Johnson, M Petrovich, AR Fersht
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(2013)
110