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
2007
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Study of structure, dynamics and local elasticity of 16S rRNA Helix 44 using molecular dynamics methods.
Journal Of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, year: 2007
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Study of unusual RNA structures using molecular dynamics methods
Workshop on Modelling interactions in Biomolecules III, year: 2007
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UNRAVELING THE PROBLEMS OF PROTEIN - SACCHARIDE INTERACTIONS VIA COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
Materials structure, year: 2007, volume: 14, edition: 1
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UPS AND DOWNS OF HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION
Year: 2007, type: R&D Presentation
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Utilizing Computational Chemistry for protein engineering - study of lectin-saccharide interactions
European Biophysics Journal 36 (suppl. 1), 6th EBSA Biophysics Congress, year: 2007
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X-ray Structures and Thermodynamics of the Interaction of PA-IIL from Pseudomonas aeruginosa with Disaccharide Derivatives
ChemMedChem, year: 2007, volume: 2, edition: 9
2006
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13C-detected spin-state selective experiments for measuring scalar and dipolar coupling in nucleic acid bases
21th NMR Valtice, year: 2006
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1H, 13C, and 15N resonance assignment of Bombyx mori chemosensory protein 1 (BmorCSP1)
Journal of Biomolecular NMR, year: 2006, volume: 36, edition: 5
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8-channel amperometric biosensor cell with parallel flow channels using Tesla diode array
The 9th World Congress on Biosensors Delegate Manual, year: 2006
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Application of 13C-detected experiments to NMR spectroscopy of nucleic acids
Protonless NMR, year: 2006