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
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
(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
Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2012)
134
Long-range modulation of chain motions within the intrinsically disordered transactivation domain of tumor suppressor p53.
JK Lum, H Neuweiler, AR Fersht
J Am Chem Soc
(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
Journal of the American Chemical Society
(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 of the United States of America
(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
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2011)
108
Φ‐Value Analysis of Protein Folding Transition States
N Ferguson, AR Fersht
(2011)
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