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

From minichaperone to GroEL 3: properties of an active single-ring mutant of GroEL.
J Chatellier, F Hill, NW Foster, P Goloubinoff, AR Fersht
Journal of Molecular Biology
(2000)
304
From minichaperone to GroEL 1: information on GroEL-polypeptide interactions from crystal packing of minichaperones.
Q Wang, AM Buckle, AR Fersht
J Mol Biol
(2000)
304
A kinetically significant intermediate in the folding of barnase.
AR Fersht
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2000)
97
Protein folding and unfolding in microseconds to nanoseconds by experiment and simulation
U Mayor, CM Johnson, V Daggett, AR Fersht
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2000)
97
Biophysical characterization of elongin C from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (vol 39, pg 11137, 2000)
A Buchberger, MJ Howard, SMV Freund, M Proctor, PJG Butler, AR Fersht, M Bycroft
BIOCHEMISTRY
(2000)
39
The deleterious effect of polyglutamine aggregation in cell models of Huntington's disease.
DC Rubinsztein, J Carmichael, J Rankin, J Chatellier, A Woolfson, A Wyttenbach, C Milstein, AR Fersht
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
(2000)
67
Elucidating the mechanism of familial amyloidosis– Finnish type: NMR studies of human gelsolin domain 2
SL Kazmirski, MJ Howard, RL Isaacson, AR Fersht
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2000)
97
Conversion of two-state to multi-state folding kinetics on fusion of two protein foldons11Edited by J. Karn
K Inaba, N Kobayashi, AR Fersht
J Mol Biol
(2000)
302
Biophysical characterization of elongin C from Saccharomyces cerevisiae
A Buchberger, MJ Howard, SM Freund, M Proctor, PJ Butler, AR Fersht, M Bycroft
Biochemistry
(2000)
39
Bacterial and yeast chaperones reduce both aggregate formation and cell death in mammalian cell models of Huntington's disease.
J Carmichael, J Chatellier, A Woolfson, C Milstein, AR Fersht, DC Rubinsztein
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2000)
97