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
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
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
Kinetic characterization of the recombinant ribonuclease from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens (barnase) and investigation of key residues in catalysis by site-directed mutagenesis.
DE Mossakowska, K Nyberg, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
28
Generation of a Family of Protein Fragments for Structure-folding Studies. 2. Kinetics of Association of the Two Chymotrypsin Inhibitor-2 Fragments
G de Prat Gay, J Ruiz-Sanz, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
33
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
Energetics of complementary side-chain packing in a protein hydrophobic core.
JT Kellis, K Nyberg, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
28
Structural studies on peptides corresponding to mutants of the major alpha-helix of barnase.
AD Kippen, VL Arcus, AR Fersht
Biochemistry
(2002)
33