Project information
Proteins in metabolism and interaction of organisms with the environment
- Project Identification
- MSM0021622413
- Project Period
- 1/2005 - 12/2011
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
- Research Intents
- MU Faculty or unit
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Faculty of Science
- prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Koča, DrSc.
- Other MU Faculty/Unit
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Central European Institute of Technology
- Keywords
- proteins, structure function relationships, protein complexes, proteome, metabolome
The proposal is the follow up of the previous, in our view successful, long-term research plan "Structure-Function Relationships of Biomolecules and their Role in Metabolism" studied in 1998-2004, and partly the project "Laboratory of Structure and Dynamics of Biomolecules" in the framework of program "250" studied in 1996-2000. The results of these projects were published in tens of scientific articles communicated in renowned international journals with high impact factors. The key aim was identification and characterization of low molecular weight substances involved in metabolism of bacteria and fungi with the special attention devoted to biochemical activities and the structure.
This new proposal will deal with other proteins from various organisms, for example animal proteins binding pheromones or proteins interacting with sacharides. The function and regulation of enzymes will be studied by novel methods suitable for monitoring of in vivo activity via monitoring of intracellular metabolites. We will continue to use structural methods. Keywords of the long-term research plan are protein, its function, structure, structure-function relationships and complexes of proteins. More general keywords are proteome and metabolome. The project will focus on such hot topics of current life sciences like protein/DNA interactions, synthesis of proteins on ribosome or applications of photo-labile groups for directed geometrical changes of protein-substrate complexes and regulation of enzymatic reactions.
Publications
Total number of publications: 835
2007
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Draft genome sequence of the sexually transmitted pathogen Trichomonas vaginalis
Science, year: 2007, volume: 315, edition: 5809
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Dynamics of major urinary protein-pheromone interactions: Insight by NMR and MD simulations
ISMAR 2007, Program and Abstracts, year: 2007
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Effect of asymmetric shielding tensor on model-free parameters of C-13 nuclei in nucleic acid bases
Advances and management of NMR in life sciencess, year: 2007
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Effect of ferB mutation on the sensitivity of Paracoccus denitrificans to quinones
FEBS Journal Supplement 32nd FEBS Congress Abstracts, year: 2007
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Elastic properties of ribosomal RNA building blocks: molecular dynamics of the GTPase-associated center rRNA
Nucleic Acids Research, year: 2007, volume: 35, edition: 12
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Electronegativity Equalization Method: Parameterization and Validation for Large Sets of Organic, Organohalogene and Organometal Molecule
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, year: 2007, volume: 2007, edition: 8
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Engineering of PA-IIL lectin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Unravelling the role of the specificity loop for sugar preference
BMC Structural Biology, year: 2007, volume: 7, edition: 36
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Enzymatic Detoxification of Sulfur Mustard by Haloalkane Dehalogenases
Year: 2007, type: R&D Presentation
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Fanconi anemia: The role of FANCD2 protein
Year: 2007, type: R&D Presentation
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Genetic Recombination & Genome Rearrangements
Year: 2007, type: R&D Presentation