Structure, transport and assembly of PorB, a key invasion molecule of meningococcal disease

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/546136

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

When the bacteria that cause meningococcal disease invade cells, they use specialized cell surface pore proteins to hijack the human cell and maintain infection. This research will study the structure of these bacterial pore proteins to help understand how they function to subvert normal cellular processes, and this insight will be important in the development of new treatments for meningococcal disease.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 01-01-2012

Funding Scheme: Early Career Fellowships

Funding Amount: $292,639.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Protein Targeting And Signal Transduction

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

crystallography | infectious diseases | membrane protein | nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) | protein structure

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