Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0556854

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0556854

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Molecular Characterisation of Metal Transport Proteins. The trace metals are essential to life. The secrets of their catalytic and structural roles are under intensive scrutiny. The molecular mechanisms which regulate concentrations of nutrient metals in biological cells remain poorly understood. Errors in metal metabolism cause disease. For example, defects in copper metabolism cause Menkes and Wilson diseases in humans and there are connections of copper and zinc to neuro-degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer and Creutzfeldt-Jakob (mad cow). This project will study the chemistry of metabolic pathways responsible for import of nutrient copper and other metals into biological cells.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2005

End Date: 31-12-2010

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $721,702.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Bioinorganic Chemistry | Inorganic Chemistry |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Biological sciences | Chemical sciences

Other Keywords

Bioinorganic Chemistry | Biological sciences | Chemical sciences | Inorganic Chemistry

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