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Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

 

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

Optimization of rates of protein folding: the nucleation-condensation mechanism and its implications.
AR Fersht
– Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
(1995)
92,
10869
Submillisecond events in protein folding.
B Nölting, R Golbik, AR Fersht
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(1995)
92,
10668
DISULFIDE MUTANTS OF BARNASE .1. CHANGES IN STABILITY AND STRUCTURE ASSESSED BY BIOPHYSICAL METHODS AND X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
J Clarke, K Henrick, AR Fersht
– J Mol Biol
(1995)
253,
493
DISULFIDE MUTANTS OF BARNASE .2. CHANGES IN STRUCTURE AND LOCAL STABILITY IDENTIFIED BY HYDROGEN-EXCHANGE
J Clarke, AM Hounslow, AR Fersht
– J Mol Biol
(1995)
253,
505
Negative activation enthalpies in the kinetics of protein folding.
M Oliveberg, YJ Tan, AR Fersht
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(1995)
92,
8926
The folding of GroEL-bound barnase as a model for chaperonin-mediated protein folding.
FJ Corrales, AR Fersht
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(1995)
92,
5326
Energetics of protein-protein interactions: Analysis ofthe Barnase-Barstar interface by single mutations and double mutant cycles
G Schreiber, AR Fersht
– Journal of Molecular Biology
(1995)
248,
478
Folding of a nascent polypeptide chain in vitro: cooperative formation of structure in a protein module.
G De Prat Gay, J Ruiz-Sanz, JL Neira, LS Itzhaki, AR Fersht
– Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(1995)
92,
3683
TOWARD SOLVING THE FOLDING PATHWAY OF BARNASE - THE BACKBONE C-13, N-15 AND H-1-NMR ASSIGNMENTS OF ITS PH-DENATURED AND UREA-DENATURED STATES
VL ARCUS, S VUILLEUMIER, SMV FREUND, M BYCROFT, AR FERSHT
– JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
(1995)
42
Crystallographic analysis of Phe→Leu substitution in the hydrophobic core of barnase
YW Chen, AR Fersht, K Henrick
– Acta Crystallographica Section D, Structural Biology
(1995)
51,
220
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