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New immobilised ribosome systems for the use in bionanotechnology and pharmaceutical screening

ReferenceBBS/B/02436
Principal Investigator / Supervisor Professor John McCarthy
Co-Investigators /
Co-Supervisors
Institution The University of Manchester
DepartmentLife Sciences
Funding typeResearch
Value (£) 204,626
StatusCompleted
TypeResearch Grant
Start date 01/02/2004
End date 31/01/2007
Duration36 months

Abstract

This work will generate new enabling technology that will benefit several types of academic and pharmaceutical research activity. 1) It will provide novel immobilised systems for use in a new range of high-throughput ligand screening strategies targeted at different steps of the translation process. 2) The immobilised ribosomes will also be ideal for single molecule imaging and force studies of prokaryotic and eukaryotic ribosome functions. 3) Comparative analysis of prokaryotic and eukaryotic (yeast) ribosome functions using these techniques will be possible, and the immobilisation procedure (and thus research strategies) will be readily extendable to mammalian ribosomes.

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Committee Closed Committee - Engineering & Biological Systems (EBS)
Research TopicsX – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research PriorityX – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative X - not in an Initiative
Funding SchemeIndustrial Partnership Award (IPA)
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