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New approaches for elucidating protease biology and therapeutic opportunities

4—6 January 2007

Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, UK



Organizers:
Brian Austen (St George's University of London, UK)
Robin Leatherbarrow (Imperial College London, UK)
Christopher Southan (AstraZeneca, UK)

Timetable

Thursday 4 January 2007Friday 5 January 2007Saturday 6 January 2007
15:00 - 17:45
Session One

09:30 - 11:15
Session Two

11:45 - 13:30
Session Three

14:30 - 16:15
Session Four

09:30 - 11:00
Session Five

11:30 - 13:00
Session Six


Session One

Thursday 4 January 2007
13:30 - 15:00 Registration

15:00 - 15:45
Rhomboid proteases, their biological functions and therapeutic possibilities
Matthew Freeman (Medical Research Council, UK)
15:45 - 16:00
An alternative strategy for inhibiting multidrug-resistant mutants of the dimeric HIV-1 protease by targeting the subunit interface
Selected oral communication - Ludovic Bannwarth (CNRS-Université, Paris)
16:00 - 16:45
Assay considerations for proteolytic cascades: the quest for Xase exosite inhibitors
Augustin Amour (GlaxoSmithKline, UK)
16:45 - 17:00
Investigation of a novel serine protease involved in cell survival
Selected oral communication - Kelly Moffitt (Queens University Belfast, UK)
17:00 - 17:45
New opportunities for protease ligand binding site comparisons using SitesBase
Richard Jackson (University of Leeds, UK)
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner

Session Two

Friday 5 January 2007
09:30 - 10:15
Characterization of protease inhibitors using peptidomics and correlation associated networks
Petra Budde (Biovision Discovery, Germany)
10:15 - 11:00
BACE1 cytoplasmic domain interacrts with the copper chaperone for superoxide dismutase-1 and binds copper
Colin Dingwall (GlaxoSmithKline, UK)
11:00 - 11:15
Analysis of beta-secretase kinetics and the protein levels of BACE1 and BACE2 in human control and Alzheimer¿s disease brain
Selected oral communication - John Stockley (University College Cork, Ireland)
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee/tea break

Session Three

Friday 5 January 2007
11:45 - 12:30
Inhibition of the lipidation of ß-secretase - a potential therapy for Alzheimer's disease
Richard Parsons (St George's University of London, UK)
12:30 - 12:45
TTR proteolytic activity enhances apoA-I fibril formation
Selected oral communication - Marcia Liz (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
12:45 - 13:30
The NEP and ACE families as paradigms for elucidating protease biology
Antony Turner (University of Leeds, UK)

Session Four

Friday 5 January 2007
14:30 - 15:15
Roles and regulation of membrane-associated serine proteases
Vincent Ellis (University of East Anglia, UK)
15:15 - 16:00
Neuropeptidomics: strategies for reliable and sensitive identification of endogenous peptides
Per Andren (University of Uppsala, Sweden)
16:00 - 16:15
New advances, and novel applications for MALDI-TOF imaging
Selected oral communication - Laura Main (BrukerDaltonics Ltd, Coventry)
16:15 - 18:00 Poster session

19:00 - 21:00 Wine and banquet dinner

Session Five

Saturday 6 January 2007
09:30 - 10:15
Proteomic discovery of metalloproteinase substrates in the cellular context by isotope tag labelling reveals diverse substrate degradomes
Richard Dean and Chris Overall (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
10:15 - 11:00
Functional imaging of protease activity in health and disease
Matthew Bogyo (Stanford University, USA)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/tea break

Session Six

Saturday 6 January 2007
11:30 - 12:15
Structural analysis of foot-and mouth 3C virus, a viable target for antiviral drugs
Stephen Curry (Imperial College London, UK)
12:15 - 13:00
Exploiting new genome data and web resources for the phylogenetic analyisis of proteases, substrates and inhibitors
Christopher Southan (AstraZeneca, Sweden)
13:00 - 13:15 Closing remarks