A5020888090- Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Enzyme Structure and Function
- S100 Proteins and Annexins
- Chemical Thermodynamics and Molecular Structure
- Potassium and Related Disorders
- Ion Transport and Channel Regulation
- Metabolism and Genetic Disorders
- Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism
- X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
- Protein purification and stability
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Trace Elements in Health
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Crystallization and Solubility Studies
- Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
- Boron Compounds in Chemistry
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Steroid Chemistry and Biochemistry
- thermodynamics and calorimetric analyses
- Biochemical and Molecular Research
- Pharmacogenetics and Drug Metabolism
- Ion channel regulation and function
- Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
- Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
- Cancer Research and Treatments
University of Manchester
2019-2025
University of Oxford
2023
Genomics (United Kingdom)
2023
Diamond Light Source
2020
Manchester Academic Health Science Centre
2019
Abstract COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, lacks effective therapeutics. Additionally, no antiviral drugs or vaccines were developed against the closely related coronavirus, SARS-CoV-1 MERS-CoV, despite previous zoonotic outbreaks. To identify starting points for such therapeutics, we performed a large-scale screen of electrophile and non-covalent fragments through combined mass spectrometry X-ray approach SARS-CoV-2 main protease, one two cysteine viral proteases essential replication. Our...
Summary COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, lacks effective therapeutics. Additionally, no antiviral drugs or vaccines were developed against the closely related coronavirus, SARS-CoV-1 MERS-CoV, despite previous zoonotic outbreaks. To identify starting points for such therapeutics, we performed a large-scale screen of electrophile and non-covalent fragments through combined mass spectrometry X-ray approach SARS-CoV-2 main protease, one two cysteine viral proteases essential replication. Our...
Natural competence is the term used to describe uptake of "naked" extracellular DNA by bacteria; it plays a significant role in horizontal genetic exchange. It associated with type IV pili, and specialized pili mediate uptake. Here, we show that crystal structure competence-associated protein from Thermus thermophilus, ComZ, consists II secretion pseudopilin-like domain, large β-solenoid domain inserted into β-sheet pilin-like fold. ComZ binds high affinity another pilin, PilA2, which lies...
In this study, we present the structures of human urea transporters UT-A and UT-B to characterize them at molecular level detail mechanism inhibition by its selective inhibitor, UTBinh-14. High-resolution both establish structural basis for inhibitor's selectivity UT-B, identification multiple binding sites inhibitor will aid with development drug lead molecules targeting transporters. Our study also discovers phospholipids associating combining observations, native MS, lipidomics analysis....
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) was responsible for approximately 1.6 million deaths in 2021. With the emergence of extensive drug resistance, novel therapeutic agents are urgently needed, and continued discovery efforts required. Host-derived lipids such as cholesterol not only support Mtb growth, but also suspected to function immunomodulation, with links persistence immune evasion. cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes facilitate key steps lipid catabolism thus present potential targets...
Abstract Mycobacterium tuberculosis ( Mtb ) is the world’s most deadly infectious pathogen and new drugs are urgently required to combat emergence of multi-(MDR) extensively-(XDR) drug resistant strains. The bacterium specifically upregulates sterol uptake pathways in infected macrophages metabolism host-derived cholesterol essential for Mtb’s long-term survival vivo. Here, we report development antitubercular small molecules that inhibit oxidases CYP125 CYP142, which catalyze initial step...