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

Engineered Disulfide Bonds as Probes of the Folding Pathway of Barnase: Increasing the Stability of Proteins against the Rate of Denaturation
J Clarke, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
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Role of phenylalanine-327 in the closure of loop 6 of ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase from Rhodospirillum rubrum.
AG Day, P Chène, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
32
Energetics of complementary side-chain packing in a protein hydrophobic core.
JT Kellis, K Nyberg, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
28
Engineering a novel specificity in subtilisin BPN'
M Rheinnecker, G Baker, J Eder, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
32
Folding of subtilisin BPN': characterization of a folding intermediate
J Eder, M Rheinnecker, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
32
Reaction of modified and unmodified tRNATyr substrates with tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase (Bacillus stearothermophilus)
JM Avis, AG Day, GA Garcia, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
32
recA Filaments in solution
SM Cotterill, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
22
Free energy of hydrolysis of tyrosyl adenylate and its binding to wild-type and engineered mutant tyrosyl-tRNA synthetases.
TN Wells, CK Ho, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
25
Circular dichroism studies of barnase and its mutants: Characterization of the contribution of aromatic side chains
S Vuilleumier, J Sancho, R Loewenthal, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
32
STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF BARNASE COMPLEXED WITH 3'-GMP STUDIED BY NMR-SPECTROSCOPY
EM Meiering, M Bycroft, MJ Lubienski, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
32