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
2012
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NMR study of RNA polymerase delta subunit unique for gram-positive bacteria
Year: 2012
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Understanding the Sequence Preference of Recurrent RNA Building Blocks using Quantum Chemistry: The Intrastrand RNA Dinucleotide Platform
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, year: 2012, volume: 8, edition: 1, DOI
2011
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5D 13C-detected experiments for backbone assignment of unstructured proteins with a very low signal dispersion
Journal of Biomolecular NMR, year: 2011, volume: 50, edition: 1, DOI
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A-Minor Tertiary Interactions in RNA Kink-Turns. Molecular Dynamics and Quantum Chemical Analysis
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B, year: 2011, volume: 115, edition: 47, DOI
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Burkholderia cenocepacia BC2L-C Is a Super Lectin with Dual Specificity and Proinflammatory Activity
PLoS Pathogens, year: 2011, volume: 7, edition: 9, DOI
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Calculating pKa of selected active site aminoacids in acetylcholinesterase
Year: 2011, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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Carbohydrate CH/pi interactions – Theoretical investigation of the favourable regions in the carbohydrate surroundings
Year: 2011, type: Conference abstract
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Comparison of protein structural motifs – challenges and algorithms. Improved approach and case studies
Year: 2011, type: Conference abstract
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Complementation of 3D structure of delta subunit of RNA polymerase from Bacillus subtilis with description of internal motions in terms of reduced spectral density mapping
MATERIALS STRUCTURE, year: 2011, volume: 18, edition: 1
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Computational study of the dimethylphosphate hydrolysis as the reference system for the understanding of the restriction endonucleases mechanism
Year: 2011, type: Conference abstract