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

Reaction of modified and unmodified tRNATyr substrates with tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase (Bacillus stearothermophilus)
JM Avis, AG Day, GA Garcia, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
32
Interaction of barnase with its polypeptide inhibitor barstar studied by protein engineering
G Schreiber, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
32
Folding of Chymotrypsin Inhibitor 2.1. Evidence for a Two-State Transition
SE Jackson, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
30
FOLDING OF CHYMOTRYPSIN INHIBITOR-2 .2. INFLUENCE OF PROLINE ISOMERIZATION ON THE FOLDING KINETICS AND THERMODYNAMIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THE TRANSITION-STATE OF FOLDING
SE Jackson, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
30
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)
32
Histidine residues at the N- and C-termini of .alpha.-helixes: perturbed pKas and protein stability
J Sancho, L Serrano, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
31
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
Variants of subtilisin BPN' with altered specificity profiles.
M Rheinnecker, J Eder, PS Pandey, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
33
Effects of engineering complementary charged residues into the hydrophobic subunit interface of tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase
WHJ Ward, DH Jones, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
26
Engineering a novel specificity in subtilisin BPN'.
M Rheinnecker, G Baker, J Eder, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
32