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

Intrinsically disordered p53 and its complexes populate compact conformations in the gas phase.
K Pagel, E Natan, Z Hall, AR Fersht, CV Robinson
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
(2012)
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Halogen-Enriched Fragment Libraries as Leads for Drug Rescue of Mutant p53
R Wilcken, X Liu, MO Zimmermann, TJ Rutherford, AR Fersht, AC Joerger, FM Boeckler
J Am Chem Soc
(2012)
134
Long-range modulation of chain motions within the intrinsically disordered transactivation domain of tumor suppressor p53.
JK Lum, H Neuweiler, AR Fersht
Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2012)
134
Nonnative interactions in the FF domain folding pathway from an atomic resolution structure of a sparsely populated intermediate: An NMR relaxation dispersion study
DM Korzhnev, RM Vernon, TL Religa, AL Hansen, D Baker, AR Fersht, LE Kay
J Am Chem Soc
(2011)
133
Combination of Markov state models and kinetic networks for the analysis of molecular dynamics simulations of peptide folding.
IH Radford, AR Fersht, G Settanni
The journal of physical chemistry. B
(2011)
115
Acetylation of lysine 120 of p53 endows DNA-binding specificity at effective physiological salt concentration.
E Arbely, E Natan, T Brandt, MD Allen, DB Veprintsev, CV Robinson, JW Chin, AC Joerger, AR Fersht
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2011)
108
Electrocatalytic monitoring of metal binding and mutation-induced conformational changes in p53 at picomole level
E Paleček, V Ostatná, H Černocká, AC Joerger, AR Fersht
J Am Chem Soc
(2011)
133
Interaction of the p53 DNA-Binding Domain with Its N-Terminal Extension Modulates the Stability of the p53 Tetramer
E Natan, C Baloglu, K Pagel, SMV Freund, N Morgner, CV Robinson, AR Fersht, AC Joerger
J Mol Biol
(2011)
409
Malleability of folding intermediates in the homeodomain superfamily.
W Banachewicz, TL Religa, RD Schaeffer, V Daggett, AR Fersht
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
(2011)
108
Φ‐Value Analysis of Protein Folding Transition States
N Ferguson, AR Fersht
(2011)
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