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

Pathway and Stability of Protein Folding
AR Fersht
Biochemical Society Transactions
(1994)
22
Direct observation of better hydration at the N terminus of an alpha-helix with glycine rather than alanine as the N-cap residue.
Y Harpaz, N Elmasry, AR Fersht, K Henrick
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
(1994)
91
Editorial overview
AR Fersht, KA Dill
Current Opinion in Structural Biology
(1994)
4
Contribution of a proline residue and a salt bridge to the stability of a type I reverse turn in chymotrypsin inhibitor-2
G de Prat Gay, CM Johnson, AR Fersht
"Protein Engineering, Design and Selection"
(1994)
7
Contribution of buried hydrogen bonds to protein stability. The crystal structures of two barnase mutants.
YW Chen, AR Fersht, K Henrick
J Mol Biol
(1993)
234
Crystal structural analysis of mutations in the hydrophobic cores of barnase.
AM Buckle, K Henrick, AR Fersht
J Mol Biol
(1993)
234
Local breathing and global unfolding in hydrogen exchange of barnase and its relationship to protein folding pathways.
J Clarke, AM Hounslow, M Bycroft, AR Fersht
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(1993)
90
Refolding of barnase mutants and pro‐barnase in the presence and absence of GroEL.
TE Gray, J Eder, M Bycroft, AG Day, AR Fersht
The EMBO journal
(1993)
12
THE REFOLDING OF CIS-PEPTIDYLPROLYL AND TRANS-PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERS OF BARSTAR
G SCHREIBER, AR FERSHT
BIOCHEMISTRY
(1993)
32
Protein stability: experimental data from protein engineering
AR Fersht, SE Jackson, L Serrano
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Physical and Engineering Sciences
(1993)
345