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

An N-terminal fragment of barnase has residual helical structure similar to that in a refolding intermediate.
J Sancho, JL Neira, AR Fersht
J Mol Biol
(1992)
224
The folding of an enzyme
L Serrano, JT Kellis, P Cann, A Matouschek, AR Fersht
Journal of Molecular Biology
(1992)
224
The folding of an enzyme. I. Theory of protein engineering analysis of stability and pathway of protein folding.
AR Fersht, A Matouschek, L Serrano
J Mol Biol
(1992)
224
Histidine-aromatic interactions in barnase. Elevation of histidine pKa and contribution to protein stability.
R Loewenthal, J Sancho, AR Fersht
Journal of molecular biology
(1992)
224
Co-operative interactions during protein folding.
A Horovitz, AR Fersht
J Mol Biol
(1992)
224
Effect of alanine versus glycine in alpha-helices on protein stability.
L Serrano, JL Neira, J Sancho, AR Fersht
Nature
(1992)
356
<title>Energy transfer and specific fluorescence quenching effects in barnase, studied via multifrequency phase-fluorometry of tryptophan mutants</title>
K Willaert, R Loewenthal, J Sancho, M Froeyen, AR Fersht, Y Engelborghs
Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering
(1992)
1640
General discussion
GE Schulz, LN Johnson, ML Sinnott, M Perutz, SS Taylor, M Karplus, T Ohta, PN Edwards, DM Blow, J Thornton, AR Fersht, A Warshel, AD Buckingham, D Eisenberg, GG Dodson, IH Williams, MCR Symons, BW Matthews, K Wüthrich, L Graf, H Dalton, O Smart, M Rossi, R Lewis
Faraday Discussions
(1992)
93
General discussion
D Eisenberg, MF Perutz, AD Buckingham, L Graf, J Thornton, DM Blow, AR Fersht, M Karplus, LN Johnson, F Rippmann, GG Dodson, PN Edwards, P Halling, K Wüthrich, MCR Symons, K Marshall, BL Vallee, M Rossi, DS Auld, E Pombo-Villar, ML Sinnott, HBF Dixon, A Berry, DR Brown, JA Littlechild, A Thomson, N Ito, PF Knowles, SS Taylor, GE Schulz, O Misset
Faraday Discussions
(1992)
93
Pathway of protein folding.
AR Fersht, A Matouschek, J Sancho, L Serrano, S Vuilleumier
Faraday Discussions
(1992)
93