Project information
Proteins in metabolism and interaction of organisms with the environment
- Project Identification
- MSM0021622413
- Project Period
- 1/2005 - 12/2011
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
- Research Intents
- MU Faculty or unit
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Faculty of Science
- prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Koča, DrSc.
- Other MU Faculty/Unit
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Central European Institute of Technology
- Keywords
- proteins, structure function relationships, protein complexes, proteome, metabolome
The proposal is the follow up of the previous, in our view successful, long-term research plan "Structure-Function Relationships of Biomolecules and their Role in Metabolism" studied in 1998-2004, and partly the project "Laboratory of Structure and Dynamics of Biomolecules" in the framework of program "250" studied in 1996-2000. The results of these projects were published in tens of scientific articles communicated in renowned international journals with high impact factors. The key aim was identification and characterization of low molecular weight substances involved in metabolism of bacteria and fungi with the special attention devoted to biochemical activities and the structure.
This new proposal will deal with other proteins from various organisms, for example animal proteins binding pheromones or proteins interacting with sacharides. The function and regulation of enzymes will be studied by novel methods suitable for monitoring of in vivo activity via monitoring of intracellular metabolites. We will continue to use structural methods. Keywords of the long-term research plan are protein, its function, structure, structure-function relationships and complexes of proteins. More general keywords are proteome and metabolome. The project will focus on such hot topics of current life sciences like protein/DNA interactions, synthesis of proteins on ribosome or applications of photo-labile groups for directed geometrical changes of protein-substrate complexes and regulation of enzymatic reactions.
Publications
Total number of publications: 836
2009
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Capillary zone electrophoresis with field enhanced sample stacking as a tool for targeted metabolome analysis of adenine nucleotides and coenzymes in Paracoccus denitrificans
Journal of Separation Science, year: 2009, volume: 32, edition: 14
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Combination of several bioinformatics approaches for the identification of new putative glycosyltransferases in Arabidopsis
Journal of Proteome Research, year: 2009, volume: 8, edition: 2
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Competing Pathways in the Photo-Favorskii Rearrangement and Release of Esters: Studies on Fluorinated p-Hydroxyphenacyl-Caged GABA and Glutamate Phototriggers
JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, year: 2009, volume: 74, edition: 15
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Computational Tools for Designing and Engineering Biocatalysts.
CURRENT OPINION IN BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY, year: 2009, volume: 1, edition: 13
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Computer-Assisted Engineering of Biomolecules
Year: 2009, type: Requested lectures
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Construction of mutant lectins from Chromobacterium violaceum and study of changes in their binding properties
Year: 2009, type: Conference abstract
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Co-operativity of Mus81-Mms4 with Rad54 in the resolution of recombination and replication intermediates.
J Biol Chem., year: 2009, volume: 284, edition: 12
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CRACKING THE LECTIN CODE ; IN SILICO MODELING AND STRUCTURE-FUNCTIONAL STUDY OF PRINCIPLES DRIVING SUGAR PREFERENCE IN PAIIL FAMILY
FEBS Journal, year: 2009
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CV-IIL lectin : an ideal helper for understanding mutation-caused binding preference changes in the PA-IIL lectin family
The FEBS Journal, year: 2009
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CZE separation of cellular energetically important metabolites
EURO ANALYSIS 2009, year: 2009