Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0344773

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0344773

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Biochemistry of tropoelastin and elastin. Elastin is the main protein responsible for the elasticity of vertebrate tissues. The Weiss Lab makes large quantities of full-length tropoelastin, which is crosslinked to make elastin. We want to examine the biochemistry of tropoelastin, learn how its domains participate in elastin structure and assembly, and explore cellular responses to our synthetic elastin biomaterial. Remarkably little is known of this biochemistry because elastin is a highly cross-linked and substantially insoluble macroscopic network of tropoelastin multimers. Our availability of tropoelastin and synthetic elastin now makes these studies possible.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-02-2003

End Date: 31-01-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $300,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Analytical Biochemistry | Biomaterials | Cellular Interactions (Incl. Adhesion, Matrix, Cell Wall)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Cardiovascular system and diseases | Skin and related disorders | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Analytical Biochemistry | Biochemistry and Cell Biology | Biological sciences | Biomaterials | Cardiovascular system and diseases | Cellular Interactions (Incl. Adhesion, Matrix, Cell Wall) | Skin and related disorders

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