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NCMH stage V: molecular crowding and thermodynamic non-ideality prediction for macromolecule-ligand interactions

ReferenceB18660
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Professor Stephen Harding
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Professor John King
Institution University of Nottingham
DepartmentSch of Biosciences
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 261,868
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 02/06/2003
End date 01/06/2006
Duration36 months

Abstract

75 per cent: We address significant non-ideality crowding and hydration problems in solution biophysics, concerning macromolecule-macromolecules and macromolecule-small ligand interactions. Facilitates full characterisation of one specific and important example in the field of metabolic biochemistry: the phosphorylase b dimer (inactive) - tetramer (active) equilibrium. Rallison-Harding theory is then applied to a series of NON-self associating macromolecular systems of known structure to pinpoint molecular hydration delta for proteins and glycoproteins: involves thorough determination of the virial coefficient and charge, application of the J. Thornton ELLIPSE algorithm to the crystal structure and our COVOL algorithm. 25 per cent: NCMH Facility for UK users.

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Committee Closed Committee - Biomolecular Sciences (BMS)
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