David Baker

Structure of Designer Proteins

Lead Institution

University of Washington

Principal Investigator

Gabriele Varani

Project type

Capability Research

Protein design is one of the great challenges of modern molecular biology, promising to provide entirely new biological activities together with an unprecedented understanding of protein structure…

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS OF HYDROGEN BONDING IN BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

Lead Institution

University of Washington

Principal Investigator

David Baker

Project type

Exploratory Research

Hydrogen bonding interactions play a crucial role in stabilizing native protein conformations, and in determining specifity and stability of protein-ligand docked complexes. In force field…

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS OF HYDROGEN BONDING IN BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

Lead Institution

University of Washington

Principal Investigator

David Baker

Project type

Exploratory Research

Hydrogen bonding interactions play a crucial role in stabilizing native protein conformations, and in determining specifity and stability of protein-ligand docked complexes. In force field…

High-Throughput Structure Determination of Proteins and Protein Complexes

Lead Institution

Rutgers University

Principal Investigator

Gaetano Montelione

Project type

Large-Scale EMSL Research

The Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium (NESGC, www.nesg.org) is one of four large protein structure production centers supported by the NIH Protein Structure Initiative II (the PSI II). The…

Collaborative Access Team: Pacific Northwest Cryo-EM Center (PNCC)

Lead Institution

Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory

Principal Investigator

James Evans

PNNL will create and operate the Pacific Northwest Center for Cryo-EM (PNCC), a state-of-the-art national center for cryo-electron microscopy (Cryo-EM) that will rapidly and efficiently collect and…

New theoretical developments and computational studies of complex processes in environmental chemistry, waste containment, and biochemistry

Lead Institution

University of Arizona

Principal Investigator

L. Corrales

Project type

Capability Research

The proposed project brings together projects from different fields that share common theoretical and computational challenges. The grand challenge of the project is represented by (1) the scale of…

Mistranslation fragment of an in silico designed novel-fold protein forms and exceptionally stable symmetric homodimer with a high-affinity interface

Lead Institution

University of Washington

Principal Investigator

Gabriele Varani

Project type

Capability Research

We recently used computational protein design to create an extremely stable, globular protein, Top7, with a sequence and fold not observed previously in nature. Since Top7 was created in the absence…

EMSL Science Overview

David Baker

Projects

Structure of Designer Proteins

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS OF HYDROGEN BONDING IN BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE CALCULATIONS OF HYDROGEN BONDING IN BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

High-Throughput Structure Determination of Proteins and Protein Complexes

Collaborative Access Team: Pacific Northwest Cryo-EM Center (PNCC)

New theoretical developments and computational studies of complex processes in environmental chemistry, waste containment, and biochemistry

Mistranslation fragment of an in silico designed novel-fold protein forms and exceptionally stable symmetric homodimer with a high-affinity interface