PPS '96
Principles of Protein Structure
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PPS96 Student Projects: protein structure, function and dynamics
List of PPS96 Project Titles
Names of PPS consultants/advisors have been added where we know these.
Please let us know any corrections/updates to this list
Uracil
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Electron microscopy as a structural determination technique :
Matt Ellis.
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Prospects for molecular dynamics in the study of protein folding :
Jose Zaldivar-Comenges.
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Classes of membrane
proteins :
Salvador Sala
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DNA
and RNA
polymerases:
Peter Slickers
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Structural/functional roles of aromatic residues in transmembrane domains
of membrane proteins :
Ken Xian and Ingeborg Schmidt-Krey
Cytosine
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Electrostatics in DNA-Peptide
complexes, with reference to structure
:
Montse Soler
(Advisor: Leonor Cruzeiro-Hansson)
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Protein-xenon
complexes :
Franco Zanini
(Advisor: Pete Dunten)
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Prion diseases and genetic susceptibility to infection :
Graham Jackson
(Advisor: Clare Sansom)
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Method
of solution of a protein structure by X-ray crystallography :
Rob Kehoe
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Restriction enzyme-DNA interactions with reference to sequence
recognition
:
Luca Olivi
(Advisors: Jim Pitts and Vineet Gupta)
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Non-heme
Iron containing Proteins:
Steve Tate
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Disulphides
in protein stability
:
Kate Denton
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Using Secondary Structure Prediction for Comparing Homologous
Hunchback Zinc-Finger
Proteins:
Karl Schmid
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Structure Determination of
Proteins with NMR Spectroscopy:
Horst-Joachim Schirra
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Mutations/amino acid composition variation (provisional) :
Humberto Rosa
Guanine
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Structure-function of general replicases :
Peter Olds
(Advisor: Terry Walsh)
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Mobility in crystal structures, with reference to X-ray scattering
:
John Reissner
(Advisor: David Moss)
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Packaging of DNA by Sperm Nuclear
Basic Proteins:
Lilian Soon
(Advisor: Clare Sansom)
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Sequence and structural comparisons of snake venom proteins :
John Swann
(PPS advisor: Terry Walsh)
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The Transglutaminase Family - the relationship between enzyme structure
and activation :
Andrew Robertson
(Advisor: Will Pitt)
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4-helical bundle structures
(cytokines); with reference to amino acid composition and connecting loop
regions :
Kingman Ng
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Conformational changes in
proteins :
Chee M Vun
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Phosphorylation
Gayle K Schulte
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The role of proline in
proteins
Tom Pauly
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The roles of metals in proteins:
with special reference to muscle proteins
Qian Xiao
(Advisors: Terry Walsh, Marjorie Harding and Gail Schuman)
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Prediction of Protein Secondary Structure :
Catherine O'Malley
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The Soure of Stability
in Proteins :
Tony Day
(Advisors: Marjorie Harding and Terry Walsh)
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DNA Binding Proteins - DNA
Cleavage
Marcus Hastie
Thymine
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"Cystine Knot" motifs in proteins :
Lesley Maclachlan
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DNA-protein binding; with
special reference to amino acid/base interactions in the trp repressor/operator
complex :
Andy Jennings
(Advisor: Henry Brzeski)
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Protein folding with reference to amino-acid composition variation between
classes of protein folds :
Giovanni Capranico
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Classes of
Membrane Proteins:
Jostein Aaserud
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tRNA bound bacterial elongation factor in EF-Tu molecule:
Salim Mottagui-Tabar
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Protein Structure of Lignin
Peroxidases
Vanessa Siew Kuan Wee
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How to define hydrogen
bonds
Jens J Loesel
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Structure and Function of Green
Fluorescent Protein
Silke Jonda
Adenine
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Roles of metals
ions in proteins :
Luis Candeias
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Viral proteins :
Cristina Cantale
(Advisor: Sophia Kossida)
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The photocycle
of bacteriorhodopsin and some mutants:
Agnes Hotz-Wagenblatt
(Advisor: Iddo Friedberg)
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Classes of membrane proteins
Pierre Hubert
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Overview
about computer-based methods and tools for secondary structure
prediction.
Ekard Burger
Last updated 3.9.96