Project information
Biomolecular Center
- Project Identification
- LN00A016
- Project Period
- 7/2000 - 12/2004
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
- Research Centres
- MU Faculty or unit
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Faculty of Science
- prof. RNDr. Jaroslav Koča, DrSc.
- Keywords
- Biomolecules, protein, oligonucleotides, NMR spectroscopy, computer simulations and modeling, protein engineering, DNA vaccines, bacteria "quorum systems"
- Cooperating Organization
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Institute of Biophysics
- Responsible person prof. RNDr. Jiří Šponer, DrSc.
- Responsible person doc. RNDr. Ivan Rychlík, Ph.D.
Biomolecular center is designed as an expert laboratory for studiyng the structure and properties of biologically relevant molecules and biopolymers, with main emphasis on proteins and nucleic acid fragments. On the horizontal level the Center will havea strong background in methods for studiing the biomolecules on the atomic level using NMR spectroscopy, molecular modeling and X-ray crystallography with appropriate support of biochemistry and molecular biology. The Center will be able to studythe biomolecular systems in the vertical direction starting with the atomic structure, through their in vitro properties to their function in living cells. From the very beginning, the Center will activelly participate in Ph.D programs (already now 14PhD. students). In the final stage, 25 core scientist will be employed in the Center with a significant support from postdoctoral fellows and PhD. students (2/3 of all coworkers). The group is involved in a large number of international projects.
Publications
Total number of publications: 127
2002
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Structural studies of benzophenanthridine alkaloid free bases by NMR spectroscopy
Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, year: 2002, volume: 40, edition: 2
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Three-Bond Sugar-Base Couplings in Purine versus Pyrimidine Nucleosides: A DFT Study of Karplus Relationships for 3JC2/4-H1' and 3JC6/8-H1' in DNA
Journal of the American Chemical Society, year: 2002, volume: 124, edition: 36
2001
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A density functional study of EPR parameters for vanadyl complexes containing schiff base ligands
J. Phys. Chem. B, year: 2001, volume: 105, edition: 50
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A-like Guanine-Guanine Stacking in the Aqueous DNA
Journal of Molecular Biology, year: 2001, volume: 307, edition: 1
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Comparative binding energy (COMBINE) analysis of the substrate specificity of haloalkane dehalogenase from Xanthobacter autotrophicus GJ10
Biochemistry, year: 2001, volume: 40, edition: 30
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Four novel germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in breast and breast-ovarian cancer
Human Mutation, year: 2001, volume: 18, edition: 1
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Free Bases of Benzophenanthridine Alkaloids - a Combined NMR, X-Ray and Theoretical Study
42nd Experimental NMR conference, year: 2001
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Identification of protein fold and catalytic residues of g-hexachlorocyclohexane dehydrochlorinase LinA
PROTEINS: Structure, Function, and Genetics, year: 2001, volume: 45, edition: 4
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Measurement of small scalar and resiudal dipolar couplings in purine and pyrimidine bases
Journal of Biomolecular NMR, year: 2001, volume: 21, edition: 2
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Molecular dynamics of the frame-shifting pseudoknot from beet western yellows virus: The role of non- Watson-Crick base-pairing, ordered hydration, cation binding and base mutations on stability and unfolding
Journal of Molecular Biology, year: 2001, volume: 313, edition: 5