Project information
Biomolecular centre
- Project Identification
- LC06030
- Project Period
- 3/2006 - 12/2011
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
- Basic Research Center
- MU Faculty or unit
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Central European Institute of Technology
- prof. RNDr. Vladimír Sklenář, DrSc.
- Keywords
- Cancer drugs, biosensors, lectins, molecular modeling of biomolecules, biomolecular NMR
- Cooperating Organization
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Institute of Biophysics
- Responsible person prof. RNDr. Jiří Šponer, DrSc.
- Responsible person doc. RNDr. Ivan Rychlík, Ph.D.
The main goal of the project is to elevate the structural biology in the Czech Republic from studies of individual biomacromolecules to investigations of their complexes. This goal will be achieved by implementation of up-to-date methodology in selected scientific fields (NMR spectroscopy, computational modeling) and by focusing on problems, which are currently in the centre of interest of contemporary life sciences. Among others, key cell processes such as preservation of genome stability and DNA repair, ribosomal protein synthesis, or information transfer by recognition (lectins) will be studied. Selected research projects will lead eventually to bioanalytical (biosensors) and biomedical (vaccines, chemotherapeutics) outcomes with potential applications in research and development. To reach the outlined goals, active collaboration of participating institutions is inevitable. A number of projects will require also a broad international collaboration.
Results
The main goal of the project is to help to drive structural biology in the Czech Republic from studies on single biomacromolecules to studies on biomacromolecular complexes. To achieve the goal, we will implement recent advances in selected key methods in the field (NMR spectrometry, computer modeling) and also contribute to their development. The research will be oriented not only to the structure of biomacromolecules but will also include studies of structure/function relationship. It will touch suchimportant phenomena of the cell life as keeping genome stability, DNA repair, protein synthesis in the ribosome or information transfer via recognition (lectins). Selected parts of the research will be devoted to bioanalytical (biosensors) or biomedicinal(vaccines, chemotherapeutics) projects capable of providing results with potential applications at the practical level. By solving the above scientific tasks, the team will increase its international competitiveness. At the same time, the project will
Publications
Total number of publications: 284
2009
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Investigation of Thermal Denaturation of Barley Nonspecific Lipid Transfer Protein 1 (ns-LTP1b) by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Differential Scanning Calorimetry
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, year: 2009, volume: 57, edition: 18
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Large-Scale Free Energy Calculations as Showcase of Worldwide Grid Usability
Year: 2009, type: Conference abstract
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Localization of recombination proteins and Srs2 reveals anti-recombinase function in vivo
Journal of Cell Biology, year: 2009, volume: 185, edition: 6
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Nature of lectin carbohydrate interactions and how to treat them by computational chemistry tools
Glycoconjugate Journal, "20th International Symposium on Glycoconjugates Glycans: From Molecules to Structures to Therapeutics, San Juan, Puerto Rico., year: 2009
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NMR analyses of the receiver domain of CKI1 histidine kinase and its interaction with AHP proteins
Year: 2009, type: Conference abstract
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NMR determination of pKa values of indoloquinoline alkaloids
Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, year: 2009, volume: 47, edition: 11, DOI
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NMR Quantification of Tautomeric Populations in Biogenic Purine Bases
European Journal of Organic Chemistry, year: 2009, volume: 2009, edition: 9, DOI
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NMR structural study of N-terminal domain of RNA polymerase delta subunit from Bacillus subtilis
Year: 2009, type: Conference abstract
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NMR Structure of the N-Terminal Domain of Capsid Protein from the Mason-Pfizer Monkey Virus
Journal of Molecular Biology, year: 2009, volume: 392, edition: 1
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Novel fucose binding lectin domain from the human pathogen Bukholderia cenocepacia
Glycoconjugate Journal, year: 2009