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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Piezoelectric Quartz Crystal Resonators Applied for Immunosensing and Affinity Interaction Studies
Volume 2: Electrochemical and Mechanical Detectors, Lateral Flow and Ligands for Biosensors, year: 2009, number of pages: 14 s.
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Počítačová chemie:výpočetně náročné simulace chemických a biomolekulárních systémů
Year: 2009, type:
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Prediction of C-13 chemical shifts in nucleic acids
Year: 2009, type: Conference abstract
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Rad52 Sumoylation Affects the Efficiency of the Recombination and DNA Repair
Year: 2009, type: R&D Presentation
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Rad52 sumoylation affects the efficiency of the recombination and repair
Year: 2009, type: R&D Presentation
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Random mutagenesis as a tool for fine-tuning of affinity and specificity of PA-IIL lectin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Year: 2009, type: Conference abstract
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Reference Quantum Chemical Calculations on RNA Base Pairs Directly Involving the 2OH Group of Ribose
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, year: 2009, volume: 5, edition: 4
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Regulation of Rad51 recombinase presynaptic filament assembly via interactions with the Rad52 mediator and the Srs2 anti-recombinase.
J Biol Chem., year: 2009, volume: 254, edition: 12
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Revisiting the planarity of nucleic acid bases: Pyramidilization at glycosidic nitrogen in purine bases is modulated by orientation of glycosidic torsion
Nucleic Acids Research, year: 2009, volume: 37, edition: 21
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Single Stranded Loops of Quadruplex DNA As Key Benchmark for Testing Nucleic Acids Force Fields
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, year: 2009, volume: 5, edition: 9