University of Glasgow Meeting, 7-9 April 1999

Themed Meeting, centred around: "Complex Protein Assemblies as Molecular Machines"

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Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology Group/ British Biophysical Society Colloquium:
Molecular Interactions in Complex Assemblies of Proteins and Nucleic acids

Organisers:

B. Connolly (Newcastle)

G. Kneale (Portsmouth)

13.30 Chair's Introduction

Speakers:

13.40 L. Pearl (London)

Structural analysis of the RuvAB Holliday junction branch migration complex

14.20 D. Dryden (Edinburgh)

Assembly of the EcoKI type I restriction endonuclease and its interaction with DNA

15.00 C. Kleanthous (East Anglia, UK)

Macromolecular complexes involving nuclease toxins, immunity proteins and DNA

16.10 A. Maxwell (Leicester)

DNA gyrase and the mechanism of DNA supercoiling

16.50 S. Halford (Bristol)

Restriction enzymes that act simultaneously at two DNA sites

17.30 Poster Session

Speakers:

09.20 J. Thornton (London)

Protein-DNA Interactions - A structural perspective

10.00 Poster Session

11.00 S. Burley (New York, USA)

X-ray crystallographic studies of eukaryotic gene expression

11.40 G. Varani (Cambridge, UK)

RNA-dependent protein-protein interactions during eukaryotic gene expression

12.20 R. Brimacombe (Berlin)

Three-dimensional structure of bacterial ribosomal RNA fitted to an electron microscopic reconstruction of the 70S ribosome at 13Å resolution

13.00 Lunch

14.00 P. Stockley (Leeds)

RNA crystallography without RNA crystals: translational operators, aptameters and other motifs

14.40 A. Anston (York)

X-ray structure of trp RNA-binding attenuation protein (TRAP) in complex with cognate single stranded RNA

15.20 J. Beggs (Edinburgh)

RNA-protein interactions in nuclear pre-mRNA splicing

16.00 Close