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
2010
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Employment of free energy calculations to estimation of carbohydrates affinities towards PA-IIL superfamily lectins
Year: 2010, type: Conference abstract
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grid-CICADA: Efficient Explorer of Conformational Space of Biomolecular Systems
Year: 2010, type: Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
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High-affinity lectins from pathogens: the potential targets for antiadhesive drug design
Materials Structure in Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Technology, year: 2010, volume: 17, edition: 1a
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In silico mutagenesis and docking study of RSL lectin
Year: 2010, type: Conference abstract
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Influence of the Acetylcholinesterase Active Site Protonation on Omega Loop and Active Site Dynamics
Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics, year: 2010, volume: 28, edition: 3
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Interpretation of Indirect Nuclear Spin_Spin Couplings in Isomers of Adenine: Novel Approach to Analyze Coupling Electron Deformation Density Using Localized Molecular Orbitals
The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, year: 2010, volume: 114, edition: 24
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Lectins from pathogens: mystery of life
Year: 2010, type:
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Magnetic Resonance: 15N NMR Applications
Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry (Second Edition), edition: Vyd. 2nd Edition, year: 2010, number of pages: 7 s.
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Methods of directed evolution of PA-IIL lectin
Year: 2010, type: Conference abstract
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NMR as a tool for studies of (partially) disordered proteins and their interactions
Year: 2010, type: Conference abstract