University of Glasgow Meeting, 7-9 April 1999
Themed Meeting, centred around: "Complex Protein Assemblies as Molecular Machines"
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Meeting Programme
Thursday 8 April/ Friday 9 April 1999
Bioenergetics Group Colloquium:
Quinone binding sites in membrane proteins: structure, function and applied aspects
- Sponsors:
- AgrEvo
- BASF
- Organisers:
- P. Rich (University College London)
- P. Heathcote (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London)
Bioenergetics Group Committee Meeting 18.30 Wednesday 7th April
Thursday 8 April- Chair:
- P. Heathcote (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London)
Cytochrome bc1 complexes and Quinol Oxidases
- 09.00 P. Rich (University College London)
- Do Q sites have common features?
- 09.40 E. Berry (Berkeley, USA)
- Structures of Q sites in bc complexes
- 10.20 A. Akinsiku (London)
- Inhibitors of the cytochrome bc1 complex Qo site
- 10.35 Coffee
- 11.00 Society Medal Lecture
- 12.10 C. Hunte (Frankfurt, Germany)
- 11.00 Society Medal Lecture
- Emerging structures "Structure of bc1 complex from yeast"
- 12.50 Bioenergetics Group AGM and Lunch
- 14.00 L. Dutton (Pennsylvania, USA)
- Structure-function-dysfunction of the cytochrome bc1 complex Qo site: X-ray v. ESR
- 14.40 M. Albury (Sussex)
- Site-directed mutagenesis studies of the plant alternative oxidase expressed in yeast
- 14.55 D. Jordan (DuPont, USA)
- Famoxadone and oxazolidinones: a new chemical class of Qo site inhibitors
- 15.35 J. Ingledew (St. Andrews, UK)
- Q sites in bacterial quinol oxidases
- 16.15 C. Affourtit (Sussex)
- Competitive inhibition of the alternative oxidase by maesoquinone
- 16.30 Poster Session
- Chair:
- P. Rich (University College London)
- 09.00 S. Iwata (Uppsala, Sweden)
- Q sites in bc complex and cytochrome bo
- 09.40 S. Field (East Anglia)
- Characterisation of integral membrane cytochromes from Shewanella frigidimarina
- 10.00 Poster Session
Photosynthetic Q-sites
- Chair:
- A. Moore (Sussex)
- 11.00 R. Lancaster (Frankfurt, Germany)
- The QB site of photosynthetic reaction centres
- 11.40 P. Fyfe (Sheffield)
- Ubiquinone binding in a QA-deficient mutant of the rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction centre
- 11.55 P. Heathcote (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London)
- The quinone-binding site in Type I reaction centres
- 12.35 Lunch
Complex I and Quinone reduction
- Chair:
- T. Ohnishi (Philadelphia)
- 13.35 U. Brandt (Frankfurt, Germany)
- Ubiquinol oxidation in proton-translocating NADH: Ubiquinone oxidoreductase (Complex I)
- 14.15 P. L�mmen (AgrEvo, Germany)
- Biochemical aspects of N-heterocyclic complex I inhibitors with insecticidal activity
- 14.55 P. James (Southampton)
- The glucose dehydrogenase of Escherichia coli; a membrane quinoprotein catalysing reduction of ubiquinone
- 15.10 M. Degli Esposti (Monash, Australia)
- Ubiquinone and inhibitors sites in complex I: one, two or three?
- 15.50 R. Salleh (Southampton)
- The substrate specificity of glucose dehydrogenase of E. coli and of a H262Y site-directed mutant
- 16.05 L. Amzel (John Hopkins University, Baltimore)
- Mammalian quinone reductases: enzymes involved in chemoprotection and chemoactivation
- 16.45 Close
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