Professor Alan Cooper
- Honorary Senior Research Fellow (School of Chemistry)
email:
Alan.Cooper@glasgow.ac.uk
B4-13, Chemistry, Joseph Black Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Research interests
Publications
2019
Ibáñez-Shimabukuro, M. et al. (2019) Structure and ligand binding of As-p18, an extracellular fatty acid binding protein from the eggs of a parasitic nematode. Bioscience Reports, 39(7), BSR2019129. (doi: 10.1042/BSR20191292) (PMID:31273060) (PMCID:PMC6646235)
2018
Cooper, A. (2018) Thermodynamic fluctuations. In: Roberts, G., Watts, A. and European Biophysical Societies, (eds.) Encyclopedia of Biophysics. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg. ISBN 9783642359439 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-35943-9_10070-1)
Cooper, A. (2018) Van't Hoff analysis and hidden thermodynamic variables. In: Roberts, G., Watts, A. and European Biophysical Societies, (eds.) Encyclopedia of Biophysics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg: Berlin, Heidelberg. ISBN 9783642359439 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-35943-9)
2017
Cooper, A., Vance, S. J., Smith, B. O. and Kennedy, M. W. (2017) Frog foams and natural protein surfactants. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 534, pp. 120-129. (doi: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2017.01.049) (PMID:29276339) (PMCID:PMC5727673)
Brandani, G. B., Vance, S. J., Schor, M., Cooper, A., Kennedy, M. W. , Smith, B. O. , MacPhee, C. E. and Cheung, D. L. (2017) Adsorption of the natural protein surfactant Rsn-2 onto liquid interfaces. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19(12), pp. 8584-8594. (doi: 10.1039/C6CP07261E) (PMID:28289744)
Brand, G.D., Pires, D.A.T., Furtado, J.R., Cooper, A., Freitas, S.M. and Bloch Jr., C. (2017) Oligomerization affects the kinetics and thermodynamics of the interaction of a Bowman-Birk inhibitor with proteases. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 618, pp. 9-14. (doi: 10.1016/j.abb.2017.01.009) (PMID:28132757)
2016
Vance, S. J., Desai, V., Smith, B. O. , Kennedy, M. W. and Cooper, A. (2016) Aqueous solubilization of C60 fullerene by natural protein surfactants, latherin and ranaspumin-2. Biophysical Chemistry, 214-15, pp. 27-32. (doi: 10.1016/j.bpc.2016.05.003) (PMID:27214760) (PMCID:PMC4906151)
2015
Rey, B. M.F. et al. (2015) Diversity in the structures and ligand binding sites of nematode fatty acid and retinol binding proteins revealed by Na-FAR-1 from Necator americanus. Biochemical Journal, 471(3), pp. 403-414. (doi: 10.1042/BJ20150068) (PMID:26318523) (PMCID:PMC4613501)
2014
Ibáñez-Shimabukuro, M., Rey-Burusco, M.F., Cooper, A., Kennedy, M. W. , Córsico, B. and Smith, B. O. (2014) Resonance assignment of As-p18, a fatty acid binding protein secreted by developing larvae of the parasitic nematode Ascaris suum. Biomolecular NMR Assignments, 8(1), pp. 33-36. (doi: 10.1007/s12104-012-9447-1)
Vance, S. J., McDonald, R. E., Cooper, A., Kennedy, M. W. and Smith, B. O. (2014) Resonance assignments for latherin, a natural surfactant protein from horse sweat. Biomolecular NMR Assignments, 8(1), pp. 213-216. (doi: 10.1007/s12104-013-9485-3)
Rey-Burusco, M.F., Ibañez-Shimabukuro, M., Cooper, A., Kennedy, M. W. , Córsico, B. and Smith, B. O. (2014) 1H, 13C and 15N chemical shift assignments of Na-FAR-1, a helix-rich fatty acid and retinol binding protein of the parasitic nematode Necator americanus. Biomolecular NMR Assignments, 8(1), pp. 19-21. (doi: 10.1007/s12104-012-9444-4)
Caldwell, S.T. et al. (2014) Protein-mediated dethreading of a biotin-functionalised pseudorotaxane. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 12(3), pp. 511-516. (doi: 10.1039/C3OB41612G) (PMID:24280954)
2013
Kennedy, M.W., Córsico, B., Cooper, A. and Smith, B.O. (2013) The unusual lipid-binding proteins of nematodes: NPAs, nemFABPs and FARs. In: Kennedy, M. and Harnett, m. (eds.) Parasitic Nematodes: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Immunology [2nd. ed.]. CABI; Wallingford; UK, pp. 397-412. ISBN 9781845937591 (doi: 10.1079/9781845937591.0397)
Vance, S.J., McDonald, R.E., Cooper, A., Smith, B.O. and Kennedy, M.W. (2013) The structure of latherin, a surfactant allergen protein from horse sweat and saliva. Journal of the Royal Society: Interface, 10(85), Art. 20130453. (doi: 10.1098/rsif.2013.0453)
Zhang, H. et al. (2013) Dual-acting stapled peptides target both HIV-1 entry and assembly. Retrovirology, 10(136), (doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-10-136)
2012
Roberts, G.A., Stephanou, A.S., Kanwar, N., Dawson, A., Cooper, L.P., Chen, K., Nutley, M., Cooper, A., Blakely, G.W. and Dryden, D.T.F. (2012) Exploring the DNA mimicry of the Ocr protein of phage T7. Nucleic Acids Research, 40(16), pp. 8129-8143. (doi: 10.1093/nar/gks516)
Gabrielsen, M. , Rey-Burusco, M.F., Griffiths, K., Roe, A.J. , Cooper, A., Smith, B.O. , Kennedy, M.W. and Corsico, B. (2012) Two crystal forms of a helix-rich fatty acid- and retinol-binding protein, Na-FAR-1, from the parasitic nematodeNecator americanus. Acta Crystallographica. Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, 68(7), pp. 835-838. (doi: 10.1107/S1744309112023597) (PMID:22750878) (PMCID:PMC3388935)
Fraga, A.S., Esteves, A.C., Micaelo, N., Cruz, P.F., Brito, R.M..M., Nutley, M., Cooper, A., Barros, M.M.T. and Pires, E.M.V. (2012) Functional and conformational changes in the aspartic protease cardosin A induced by TFE. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 50(2), pp. 323-330. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2011.12.018)
Brand, G.D., Magalhães, M.T.Q., Tinoco, M.L.P., Aragão, F.J.L., Nicoli, J., Kelly, S. , Cooper, A. and Bloch Jr, C. (2012) Probing protein sequences as sources for encrypted antimicrobial peptides. PLoS ONE, 7(9), e45848. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045848) (PMID:23029273) (PMCID:PMC3461044)
Gabrielsen, M. , Riboldi-Tunnicliffe, A., Ibáñez-Shimabukuro, M., Griffiths, K., Roe, A.J. , Cooper, A., Smith, B. , Córsico, B. and Kennedy, M.W. (2012) Useable diffraction data from a multiple microdomain-containing crystal of Ascaris suum As-p18 fatty-acid-binding protein using a microfocus beamline. Acta Crystallographica. Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, 68, pp. 939-941. (doi: 10.1107/S1744309112026553) (PMID:22869127) (PMCID:PMC3412778)
Gabrielsen, M. , Riboldi-Tunnicliffe, A., Ibáñez-Shimabukuro, M., Griffiths, K., Roe, A.J. , Cooper, A., Smith, B.O. , Córsico, B. and Kennedy, M.W. (2012) Useable diffraction data from a multiple microdomain-containing crystal ofAscaris suumAs-p18 fatty-acid-binding protein using a microfocus beamline. Acta Crystallographica. Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, 68(8), pp. 939-941. (doi: 10.1107/S1744309112026553) (PMID:22869127) (PMCID:PMC3412778)
2011
Antolikova, E., Zakova, L., Turkenburg, J.P., Watson, C.J., Hanclova, I., Sanda, M., Cooper, A., Kraus, T., Brzozowski, A.M. and Jiracek, J. (2011) Non-equivalent role of inter- and intramolecular hydrogen bonds in the insulin dimer interface. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 286(42), pp. 36968-36977. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M111.265249)
Vijayakrishnan, S. , Callow, P., Nutley, M.A., McGow, D.P., Kropholler, P., Cooper, A., Byron, O. and Lindsay, J.G. (2011) Variation in the organization and subunit composition of the mammalian pyruvate dehydrogenase complex E2/E3BP core assembly. Biochemical Journal, 437(3), pp. 565-574. (doi: 10.1042/BJ20101784)
Cooper, A. (2011) Biophysical Chemistry. Series: Tutorial Chemistry Texts, 24. Royal Society of Chemistry: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781849730815
Cooper, A. (2011) Microcalorimetry of heat capacity and volumetric changes in biomolecular interactions-the link to solvation? Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 104(1), pp. 69-73. (doi: 10.1007/s10973-011-1285-3)
Meenan, N.A.G., Ball, G., Bromek, K., Uhrín, D., Cooper, A., Kennedy, M.W. and Smith, B.O. (2011) Solution structure of a repeated unit of the ABA-1 nematode polyprotein allergen of ascaris reveals a novel fold and two discrete lipid-binding sites. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 5(4), e1040. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001040)
Yong, Z., Okoro, L., Cooper, A. and Winter, R. (2011) Applications of pressure perturbation calorimetry in biophysical studies. Biophysical Chemistry, 156(1), pp. 13-23. (doi: 10.1016/j.bpc.2010.12.010)
Zhang, H., Curreli, F., Xihui, Z., Bhattacharya, S., Abdul A., W., Cooper, A., Cowburn, D., Freed, E.O. and Debnath, A.K. (2011) Antiviral activity of alpha-helical stapled peptides designed from the HIV-1 capsid dimerization domain, Retrovirology. Retrovirology, 8(28), (doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-8-28)
2010
Cameron, D.L., Jakus, J., Pauleta, S.R., Pettigrew, G.W. and Cooper, A. (2010) Pressure perturbation calorimetry and the thermodynamics of non-covalent interactions in water: comparison of protein-protein, protein-ligand, and cyclodextrin-adamantane complexes. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 114(49), pp. 16228-16235. (doi: 10.1021/jp107110t)
Cooper, A. and Kennedy, M.W. (2010) Biofoams and natural protein surfactants. Biophysical Chemistry, 151(3), pp. 96-104. (doi: 10.1016/j.bpc.2010.06.006)
Cooper, A. (2010) Protein heat capacity: an anomaly that maybe never was. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 1(22), pp. 3298-3304. (doi: 10.1021/jz1012142)
2009
Stephanou, A. S., Roberts, G. A., Cooper, L. P., Clarke, D. J., Thomson, A. R. , MacKay, C. L., Nutley, M., Cooper, A. and Dryden, D. T.F. (2009) Dissection of the DNA mimicry of the bacteriophage T7 Ocr protein using chemical modification. Journal of Molecular Biology, 391(3), pp. 565-576. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.06.020) (PMID:19523474) (PMCID:PMC2806950)
MacKenzie, C.D., Smith, B.O., Meister, A., Blume, A., Zhao, X., Lu, J.R., Kennedy, M.W. and Cooper, A. (2009) Ranaspumin-2: structure and function of a surfactant protein from the foam nests of a tropical frog. Biophysical Journal, 96(12), pp. 4984-4992. (doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.03.044)
Fleming, R.I., MacKenzie, C.D., Cooper, A. and Kennedy, M.W., (2009) Foam nest components of the túngara frog: a cocktail of proteins conferring physical and biological resilience. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 276(1663), pp. 1787-1795. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1939)
Tron, C.M., McNae, I.W., Nutley, M., Clarke, D.J., Cooper, A., Walkinshaw, M.D., Baxter, R.L. and Campopiano, D.J. (2009) Structural and functional studies of the biotin protein ligase from Aquifex aeolicus reveal a critical role for a conserved residue in target specificity. Journal of Molecular Biology, 387(1), pp. 129-146. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.12.086)
Stephanou, A.S., Roberts, G.A., Tock, M.R., Pritchard, E.H., Turkington, R., Nutley, M., Cooper, A. and Dryden, D.T.F. (2009) A mutational analysis of DNA mimicry by ocr, the gene 0.3 antirestriction protein of bacteriophage T7. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 378(1), pp. 129-132. (doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.11.014)
Cooper, A. (2009) Physical chemistry in biology. In: Begley, T.P. (ed.) Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology. John Wiley & Sons.: Hoboken, N.J.. ISBN 9780471754770 (set)
Bigot, J. et al. (2009) LCST: a powerful tool to control complexation between a dialkoxynaphthalene-functionalised poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) and CBPQT(4+) in water. Chemical Communications(35), pp. 5266-5268. (doi: 10.1039/b910856d)
Cardoso, T. et al. (2009) Acetonitrile-induced unfolding of porcine pepsin A: a proposal for a critical role of hydration structures in conformational stability. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 45(3), pp. 213-220. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2009.05.006)
McDonald, R.E., Fleming, R.I., Beeley, J.G., Bovell, D.L., Lu, J.R., Zhao, X., Cooper, A. and Kennedy, M.W. (2009) Latherin: a surfactant protein of horse sweat and saliva. PLoS ONE, 4(5), e5726. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005726) (PMID:19478940) (PMCID:PMC2684629)
2008
Oke, M. et al. (2008) Unusual chromophore and cross-links in ranasmurfin: a blue protein from the foam nests of a tropical frog. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 47(41), 7853 -7856. (doi: 10.1002/anie.200802901)
Caldwell, S. T. , Cooke, G. , Cooper, A., Nutley, M., Rabani, G., Rotello, V., Smith, B. O. and Woisel, P. (2008) Tuneable pseudorotaxane formation between a biotin-avidin bioconjugate and CBPQT(4+). Chemical Communications(23), pp. 2650-2652. (doi: 10.1039/b803856b)
Serfiotis-Mitsa, D., Roberts, G. A., Cooper, L. P., White, J. H., Nutley, M., Cooper, A., Blakely, G. W. and Dryden, D. T. F. (2008) The Orf18 Gene Product from Conjugative Transposon Tn916 Is an ArdA Antirestriction Protein that Inhibits Type I DNA Restriction-Modification Systems. Journal of Molecular Biology, 383(5), pp. 970-981. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.06.005)
2007
Guthrie, K.M., Parenty, A.D.C., Smith, L.V., Cronin, L. and Cooper, A. (2007) Microcalorimetry of interaction of dihydro-imidazo-phenanthridinium (DIP)-based compounds with duplex DNA. Biophysical Chemistry, 126(1-3), pp. 117-123. (doi: 10.1016/j.bpc.2006.05.006)
Bria, M., Cooke, G. , Cooper, A., Garety, J., Hewage, S., Nutley, M., Rabani, G. and Woisel, P. (2007) An investigation of the complexation properties of cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) in water. Tetrahedron Letters, 48, pp. 301-304. (doi: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2006.11.003)
Bria, M., Cooke, G. , Cooper, A., Delattre, F., Hewage, S. G., Rabani, G., Nutley, M. and Woisel, P. (2007) An investigation of the complexation of a TTF derivative with alpha-, beta- and gamma-cyclodextrins in aqueous media. Tetrahedron Letters, 48(48), pp. 8430-8433. (doi: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2007.09.167)
Cooper, A. (2007) Microcalorimetry and related techniques. In: Marks, R.S., Cullen, D.C., Karube, I., Lowe, C.R. and Weetall, H.H. (eds.) Handbook of Biosensors and Biochips. Wiley: Chichester, UK, pp. 659-670. ISBN 9780470019054
Cooper, A., Cameron, D., Jakus, J. and Pettigrew, G. W. (2007) Pressure perturbation calorimetry, heat capacity and the role of water in protein stability and interactions. Biochemical Society Transactions, 35(6), pp. 1547-1550. (doi: 10.1042/BST0351547)
Lamb, H. et al. (2007) Functional analysis of the GTPases EngA and YhbZ encoded by Salmonella typhimurium. Protein Science, 16, pp. 2391-2402. (doi: 10.1110/ps.072900907)
Pereira, P., Kelly, S., Cooper, A., Mardon, H., Gellert, P. and van der Walle, C. (2007) Solution formulation and lyophilisation of a recombinant fibronectin fragment. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 67, pp. 309-319. (doi: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2007.03.009)
2006
McMahon, S.A. et al. (2006) Crystallization of Ranasmurfin, a blue-coloured protein from Polypedates leucomystax. Acta Crystallographica. Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, 62, pp. 1124-1126. (doi: 10.1107/S1744309106040036)
Smolle, M., Prior, A.E., Brown, A.E., Cooper, A., Byron, O. and Lindsay, J.G. (2006) A new level of architectural complexity in the human pyruvate dehydrogenase complex. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 281(28), pp. 19772-19780. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M601140200)
Lamb, H., Mee, C., Xu, W., Liu, L., Blond, S., Cooper, A., Charles, I. and Hawkins, A. (2006) The affinity of a major Ca2+ binding site on GRP78 is differentially enhanced by ADP and ATP. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 281, pp. 8796-8805. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M503964200)
2005
Cooper, A., Kennedy, M.W. , Fleming, R.I., Wilson, E.H., Videler, H., Wokosin, D.L., Su, T., Green, R.J. and Lu, J.R. (2005) Adsorption of frog foam nest proteins at the air-water interface. Biophysical Journal, 88(3), pp. 2114-2125. (doi: 10.1529/biophysj.104.046268)
Cooper, A. (2005) Heat capacity effects in protein folding and ligand binding: a re-evaluation of the role of water in biomolecular thermodynamics. Biophysical Chemistry, 115, pp. 89-97. (doi: 10.1016/j.bpc.2004.12.011)
Cooper, A., Nutley, M., MacLean, E., Cameron, K., Fielding, L., Mestres, J. and Palin, R. (2005) Mutual induced fit in cyclodextrin-rocuronium complexes. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 3, pp. 1863-1871.
Meenan, N.A.G., Cooper, A., Kennedy, M.W. and Smith, B. (2005) Resonance assignment of ABA-1A, from Ascaris suum nematode polyprotein allergen. Journal of Biomolecular NMR, 32(2), p. 176. (doi: 10.1007/s10858-005-6070-9)
2004
Pauleta, S.R., Cooper, A., Nutley, M., Errington, N., Harding, S., Guerlesquin, F., Goodhew, C.F., Moura, I., Moura, J.J.G. and Pettigrew, G.W. (2004) A copper protein and a cytochrome bind at the same site on bacterial cytochrome c peroxidase. Biochemistry, 43(46), pp. 14566-14576. (doi: 10.1021/bi0485833)
Cooper, A. (2004) Biophysical Chemistry. Series: Tutorial Chemistry Texts, 16. Royal Society of Chemistry: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780854044801
Lamb, H. et al. (2004) Modulation of the ligand binding properties of the transcription repressor NmrA by GATA-containing DNA and site-directed mutagenesis. Protein Science, 13, pp. 3127-3138. (doi: 10.1110/ps.04958904)
Park, A., Lamb, H., Nichols, C., Moore, J., Brown, K., Cooper, A., Charles, I., Stammers, D. and Hawkins, A. (2004) Biophysical and kinetic analysis of wild-type and site-directed mutants of the isolated and native dehydroquinate synthase domain of the AROM protein. Protein Science, 13, pp. 2108-2119. (doi: 10.1110/ps.04705404)
2003
Alexeev, D. et al. (2003) Synthesis, structural and biological studies of ubiquitin mutants containing (2S, 4S)-5-fluoroleucine residues strategically placed in the hydrophobic core. ChemBioChem, 4(9), pp. 894-896. (doi: 10.1002/cbic.200300699)
Garofalo, A., Rowlinson, M.C., Amambua, N.A., Hughes, J.M., Kelly, S.M. , Price, N.C., Cooper, A., Watson, D.G., Kennedy, M.W. and Bradley, J.E. (2003) The FAR protein family of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans - Differential lipid binding properties, structural characteristics, and developmental regulation. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278, pp. 8065-8074. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M206278200)
Jung, H., Cooper, A. and Perham, R. (2003) Interactions of the peripheral subunit-binding domain of the dihydrolipoyl acetyltransferase component in the assembly of the pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex of Bacillus stearothermophilus. European Journal of Biochemistry, 270, pp. 4488-4496. (doi: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03842.x)
Lamb, H., Leslie, K., Dodds, A., Nutley, M., Cooper, A., Johnson, C., Thompson, P., Stammers, D. and Hawkins, A. (2003) The negative transcriptional regulator NmrA discriminates between oxidized and reduced dinucleotides. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278, pp. 32107-32114. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M304104200)
Pettigrew, G., Goodhew, C., Cooper, A., Nutley, M., Jumel, K. and Harding, S. (2003) The electron transfer complexes of cytochrome c peroxidase from Paracoccus denitrificans. Biochemistry, 42, pp. 2046-2055. (doi: 10.1021/bi027125w)
Pettigrew, G. et al. (2003) Electron transfer complexes of cytochrome c peroxidase from Paracoccus denitrificans containing more than one cytochrome. Biochemistry, 42, pp. 11968-11981. (doi: 10.1021/bi034829c)
2002
Jung, H.I., Bowden, S.J., Cooper, A. and Perham, R.N. (2002) Thermodynamic analysis of the binding of component enzymes in the assembly of the pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex of Bacillus stearothermophilus. Protein Science, 11(5), pp. 1091-1100. (doi: 10.1110/ps.4970102)
Wright, E.R., McMillan, R.A., Cooper, A., Apkarian, R.P. and Conticello, V.P. (2002) Thermoplastic elastomer hydrogels via self-assembly of an elastin-mimetic triblock polypeptide. Advanced Functional Materials, 12(2), pp. 149-154. (doi: 10.1002/1616-3028(20020201)12:2<149::AID-ADFM149>3.0.CO;2-N)
Cameron, D. and Cooper, A. (2002) Pressure perturbation Calorimetry of solvation changes in cyclodextrin complexes. Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry, 44, pp. 279-282.
Cameron, K., Clark, J. , Cooper, A., Fielding, L., Palin, R., Rutherford, S. and Zhang, M. (2002) Modified gamma-cyclodextrins and their rocuronium complexes. Organic Letters, 4, pp. 3403-3406. (doi: 10.1021/ol020126w)
Jung, H.I., Cooper, A. and Perham, R.N. (2002) Identification of key amino acid residues in the assembly of enzymes into the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex of Bacillus stearothermophilus: A kinetic and thermodynamic analysis. Biochemistry, 41(33), pp. 10446-10453. (doi: 10.1021/bi020147y)
McDermott, L., Kennedy, M.W. , McManus, D.P., Bradley, J.E., Cooper, A. and Storch, J. (2002) How helminth lipid-binding proteins offload their ligands to membranes: Differential mechanisms of fatty acid transfer by the ABA-1 polyprotein allergen and Ov-FAR-1 proteins of nematodes and Sj-FABPc of schistosomes. Biochemistry, 41(21), pp. 6706-6713. (doi: 10.1021/bi0159635)
Semenova, E., Cooper, A., Wilson, C. and Converse, C. (2002) Stabilization of all-trans-retinol by cyclodextrins: A comparative study using HPLC and fluorescence spectroscopy. Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry, 44, pp. 155-158.
Smith, S.A., Krishnasamy, G., Murthy, K.H.M., Cooper, A., Bromek, K., Barlow, P.N. and Kotwal, G.J. (2002) Vaccinia virus complement control protein is monomeric, and retains structural and functional integrity after exposure to adverse conditions. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Proteins and Proteomics, 1598, pp. 55-64.
2001
Pommer, A.J. et al. (2001) Mechanism and cleavage specificity of the H-N-H endonuclease colicin E9. Journal of Molecular Biology, 314(4), pp. 735-749. (doi: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.5189)
Cooper, A., Johnson, C.M., Lakey, J.H. and Nollmann, M. (2001) Heat does not come in different colours: entropy-enthalpy compensation, free energy windows, quantum confinement, pressure perturbation calorimetry, solvation and the multiple causes of heat capacity effects in biomolecular interactions. Biophysical Chemistry, 93(2-3), pp. 215-230. (doi: 10.1016/S0301-4622(01)00222-8)
Kennedy, M.W. , Heikema, A.P., Cooper, A., Bjorkman, P.J. and Sanchez, L.M. (2001) Hydrophobic ligand binding by Zn-alpha(2)-glycoprotein, a soluble fat-depleting factor related to major histocompatibility complex proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 276(37), pp. 35008-35013. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.C100301200)
Krell, T., Maclean, J., Boam, D.J., Cooper, A., Resmini, M., Brocklehurst, K., Kelly, S.M., Price, N.C., Lapthorn, A.J. and Coggins, J.R. (2001) Biochemical and X-ray crystallographic studies on shikimate kinase: the important structural role of the P-loop lysine. Protein Science, 10(6), pp. 1137-1149. (doi: 10.1110/ps.52501)
Brockwell, D., Yu, L., Cooper, S., McCleland, S., Cooper, A., Attwood, D., Gaskell, S.J. and Barber, J. (2001) Physicochemical consequences of the perdeuteriation of glutathione S-transferase from S. japonicum. Protein Science, 10(3), pp. 572-580. (doi: 10.1110/ps.46001)
Baxa, U., Cooper, A., Weintraub, N., Pfeil, W. and Seckler, R. (2001) Enthalpic barriers to the hydrophobic binding of oligosaccharides to phage P22 tailspike protein. Biochemistry, 40(17), pp. 5144-5150. (doi: 10.1021/bi0020426)
Clarke, C., Woods, R.J., Gluska, J., Cooper, A., Nutley, M.A. and Boons, G.J. (2001) Involvement of water in carbohydrate-protein binding. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 123(49), pp. 12238-12247. (doi: 10.1021/ja004315q)
Hammann, C., Cooper, A. and Lilley, D.M.J. (2001) Thermodynamics of ion-induced RNA folding in the hammerhead ribozyme: An isothermal titration calorimetric study. Biochemistry, 40(5), pp. 1423-1429. (doi: 10.1021/bi002231o)
Luck, M., Griffiths, S., Gregson, K., Watson, E., Nutley, M. and Cooper, A. (2001) Follicular fluid responds endothermically to aqueous dilution. Human Reproduction, 16, pp. 2508-2514.
McDermott, L., Moore, J., Brass, A., Price, N.C., Kelly, S.M. , Cooper, A. and Kennedy, M. (2001) Mutagenic and chemical modification of the ABA-1 allergen of the nematode Ascaris: Consequences for structure and lipid binding properties. Biochemistry, 40(33), pp. 9918-9926. (doi: 10.1021/bi0026876)
Prior, A., Jones, J.T., Blok, V.C., Beauchamp, J., McDermott, L., Cooper, A. and Kennedy, M.W. (2001) A surface-associated retinol- and fatty acid-binding protein (Gp-FAR-1) from the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida: lipid binding activities, structural analysis and expression pattern. Biochemical Journal, 356, pp. 387-394.
Semenova, E.M., Cooper, A., Kennedy, M.W. , Wilson, C.G. and Converse, C.A. (2001) Systems for delivery of Vitamin A to the retina in retinitis pigmentosa. In: Anderson, R.E., LaVail, M.M. and Hollyfield, J.G. (eds.) New insights into retinal degenerative diseases. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Pub.,: New York, USA, pp. 105-110. ISBN 9780306466793
Xie, H.F., Bolam, D.N., Nagy, T., Szabo, L., Cooper, A., Simpson, P.J., Lakey, J.H., Williamson, M.P. and Gilbert, H.J. (2001) Role of hydrogen bonding in the interaction between a xylan binding module and xylan. Biochemistry, 40(19), pp. 5700-5707. (doi: 10.1021/bi010034z)
2000
Cooper, A. (2000) Heat capacity of hydrogen-bonded networks: an alternative view of protein folding thermodynamics. Biophysical Chemistry, 85(1), pp. 25-39. (doi: 10.1016/S0301-4622(00)00136-8)
1999
Cooper, A. (1999) Thermodynamic analysis of biomolecular interactions. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 3(5), pp. 557-563. (doi: 10.1016/S1367-5931(99)00008-3)
1997
McPhail, D. and Cooper, A. (1997) Thermodynamics and kinetics of dissociation of ligand-induced dimers of vancomycin antibiotics. Journal of the Chemical Society: Faraday Transactions, 93(13), pp. 2283-2289. (doi: 10.1039/a701327b)
1996
Cooper, A., Lovatt, M. and Nutley, M.A. (1996) Energetics of protein-cyclodextrin interactions. Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Molecular Recognition in Chemistry, 25(1-3), pp. 85-88. (doi: 10.1007/BF01041542)
Lovatt, M., Cooper, A. and Camilleri, P. (1996) Energetics of cyclodextrin-induced dissociation of insulin. European Biophysics Journal with Biophysics Letters, 24(5), pp. 354-357.
1995
Wilson, G., Ford, S. J., Cooper, A., Hecht, L., Wen, Z. Q. and Barron, L. D. (1995) Vibrational Raman optical activity of α-lactalbumin: comparison with lysozyme, and evidence for native tertiary folds in molten globule states. Journal of Molecular Biology, 254(4), pp. 747-760. (doi: 10.1006/jmbi.1995.0652) (PMID:7500347)
Kennedy, M. W. , Britton, C. , Price, N. C., Kelly, S. M. and Cooper, A. (1995) The DvA-1 polyprotein of the parasitic nematode Dictyocaulus viviparus. A small helix-rich lipid-binding protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 270(33), pp. 19277-19281. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.270.33.19277) (PMID:7642601)
Ford, S. J., Cooper, A., Hecht, L., Wilson, G. and Barron, L. D. (1995) Vibrational Raman optical activity of lysozyme: hydrogen–deuterium exchange, unfolding and ligand binding. Journal of the Chemical Society: Faraday Transactions, 91(14), pp. 2087-2093. (doi: 10.1039/FT9959102087)
1994
Cooper, A., Mcalpine, A. and Stockley, P. G. (1994) Calorimetric studies of the energetics of protein—DNA interactions in the E. coli methionine repressor (MetJ) system. FEBS Letters, 348(1), pp. 41-45. (doi: 10.1016/0014-5793(94)00579-6)
Barron, L. D., Ford, S. J., Bell, A. F., Wilson, G., Hecht, L. and Cooper, A. (1994) Vibrational Raman optical activity of biopolymers. Faraday Discussions, 99, pp. 217-232. (doi: 10.1039/FD9949900217)
1992
Ford, S.J., Barron, L.D., Cooper, A., Hecht, L. and Wen, Z.Q. (1992) Vibrational Raman optical activity of proteins. Proceedings of the SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering, 1922, pp. 46-50. (doi: 10.1117/12.146179)
Barron, L.D., Hecht, L., Wen, Z.Q., Ford, S.J., Bell, A.F. and Cooper, A. (1992) Vibrational Raman optical activity of biological molecules. In: Kiefer, W. (ed.) Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy, 31 August - 4 September 1992, Würzburg, Germany. Wiley: Chichester, pp. 462-463. ISBN 9780471933359
Barron, L. D., Cooper, A., Ford, S. J., Hecht, L. and Wen, Z. Q. (1992) Vibrational Raman optical activity of enzymes. Faraday Discussions, 93, pp. 259-268. (doi: 10.1039/FD9929300259) (PMID:1290937)
Cooper, A. (1992) Effect of Cyclodextrins on the Thermal-Stability of Globular- Proteins. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 114(23), pp. 9208-9209.
1980
Cooper, A., Mackenzie, R. K., MacNicol, D. D. and Rycroft, D. S. (1980) Internal rotation in a guest molecule complexed with β-cyclodextrin in deuterium oxide solution. Journal of Chemical Research, Synopses(3), pp. 120-121.
Articles
Ibáñez-Shimabukuro, M. et al. (2019) Structure and ligand binding of As-p18, an extracellular fatty acid binding protein from the eggs of a parasitic nematode. Bioscience Reports, 39(7), BSR2019129. (doi: 10.1042/BSR20191292) (PMID:31273060) (PMCID:PMC6646235)
Cooper, A., Vance, S. J., Smith, B. O. and Kennedy, M. W. (2017) Frog foams and natural protein surfactants. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 534, pp. 120-129. (doi: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2017.01.049) (PMID:29276339) (PMCID:PMC5727673)
Brandani, G. B., Vance, S. J., Schor, M., Cooper, A., Kennedy, M. W. , Smith, B. O. , MacPhee, C. E. and Cheung, D. L. (2017) Adsorption of the natural protein surfactant Rsn-2 onto liquid interfaces. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 19(12), pp. 8584-8594. (doi: 10.1039/C6CP07261E) (PMID:28289744)
Brand, G.D., Pires, D.A.T., Furtado, J.R., Cooper, A., Freitas, S.M. and Bloch Jr., C. (2017) Oligomerization affects the kinetics and thermodynamics of the interaction of a Bowman-Birk inhibitor with proteases. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 618, pp. 9-14. (doi: 10.1016/j.abb.2017.01.009) (PMID:28132757)
Vance, S. J., Desai, V., Smith, B. O. , Kennedy, M. W. and Cooper, A. (2016) Aqueous solubilization of C60 fullerene by natural protein surfactants, latherin and ranaspumin-2. Biophysical Chemistry, 214-15, pp. 27-32. (doi: 10.1016/j.bpc.2016.05.003) (PMID:27214760) (PMCID:PMC4906151)
Rey, B. M.F. et al. (2015) Diversity in the structures and ligand binding sites of nematode fatty acid and retinol binding proteins revealed by Na-FAR-1 from Necator americanus. Biochemical Journal, 471(3), pp. 403-414. (doi: 10.1042/BJ20150068) (PMID:26318523) (PMCID:PMC4613501)
Ibáñez-Shimabukuro, M., Rey-Burusco, M.F., Cooper, A., Kennedy, M. W. , Córsico, B. and Smith, B. O. (2014) Resonance assignment of As-p18, a fatty acid binding protein secreted by developing larvae of the parasitic nematode Ascaris suum. Biomolecular NMR Assignments, 8(1), pp. 33-36. (doi: 10.1007/s12104-012-9447-1)
Vance, S. J., McDonald, R. E., Cooper, A., Kennedy, M. W. and Smith, B. O. (2014) Resonance assignments for latherin, a natural surfactant protein from horse sweat. Biomolecular NMR Assignments, 8(1), pp. 213-216. (doi: 10.1007/s12104-013-9485-3)
Rey-Burusco, M.F., Ibañez-Shimabukuro, M., Cooper, A., Kennedy, M. W. , Córsico, B. and Smith, B. O. (2014) 1H, 13C and 15N chemical shift assignments of Na-FAR-1, a helix-rich fatty acid and retinol binding protein of the parasitic nematode Necator americanus. Biomolecular NMR Assignments, 8(1), pp. 19-21. (doi: 10.1007/s12104-012-9444-4)
Caldwell, S.T. et al. (2014) Protein-mediated dethreading of a biotin-functionalised pseudorotaxane. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 12(3), pp. 511-516. (doi: 10.1039/C3OB41612G) (PMID:24280954)
Vance, S.J., McDonald, R.E., Cooper, A., Smith, B.O. and Kennedy, M.W. (2013) The structure of latherin, a surfactant allergen protein from horse sweat and saliva. Journal of the Royal Society: Interface, 10(85), Art. 20130453. (doi: 10.1098/rsif.2013.0453)
Zhang, H. et al. (2013) Dual-acting stapled peptides target both HIV-1 entry and assembly. Retrovirology, 10(136), (doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-10-136)
Roberts, G.A., Stephanou, A.S., Kanwar, N., Dawson, A., Cooper, L.P., Chen, K., Nutley, M., Cooper, A., Blakely, G.W. and Dryden, D.T.F. (2012) Exploring the DNA mimicry of the Ocr protein of phage T7. Nucleic Acids Research, 40(16), pp. 8129-8143. (doi: 10.1093/nar/gks516)
Gabrielsen, M. , Rey-Burusco, M.F., Griffiths, K., Roe, A.J. , Cooper, A., Smith, B.O. , Kennedy, M.W. and Corsico, B. (2012) Two crystal forms of a helix-rich fatty acid- and retinol-binding protein, Na-FAR-1, from the parasitic nematodeNecator americanus. Acta Crystallographica. Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, 68(7), pp. 835-838. (doi: 10.1107/S1744309112023597) (PMID:22750878) (PMCID:PMC3388935)
Fraga, A.S., Esteves, A.C., Micaelo, N., Cruz, P.F., Brito, R.M..M., Nutley, M., Cooper, A., Barros, M.M.T. and Pires, E.M.V. (2012) Functional and conformational changes in the aspartic protease cardosin A induced by TFE. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 50(2), pp. 323-330. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2011.12.018)
Brand, G.D., Magalhães, M.T.Q., Tinoco, M.L.P., Aragão, F.J.L., Nicoli, J., Kelly, S. , Cooper, A. and Bloch Jr, C. (2012) Probing protein sequences as sources for encrypted antimicrobial peptides. PLoS ONE, 7(9), e45848. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045848) (PMID:23029273) (PMCID:PMC3461044)
Gabrielsen, M. , Riboldi-Tunnicliffe, A., Ibáñez-Shimabukuro, M., Griffiths, K., Roe, A.J. , Cooper, A., Smith, B. , Córsico, B. and Kennedy, M.W. (2012) Useable diffraction data from a multiple microdomain-containing crystal of Ascaris suum As-p18 fatty-acid-binding protein using a microfocus beamline. Acta Crystallographica. Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, 68, pp. 939-941. (doi: 10.1107/S1744309112026553) (PMID:22869127) (PMCID:PMC3412778)
Gabrielsen, M. , Riboldi-Tunnicliffe, A., Ibáñez-Shimabukuro, M., Griffiths, K., Roe, A.J. , Cooper, A., Smith, B.O. , Córsico, B. and Kennedy, M.W. (2012) Useable diffraction data from a multiple microdomain-containing crystal ofAscaris suumAs-p18 fatty-acid-binding protein using a microfocus beamline. Acta Crystallographica. Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, 68(8), pp. 939-941. (doi: 10.1107/S1744309112026553) (PMID:22869127) (PMCID:PMC3412778)
Antolikova, E., Zakova, L., Turkenburg, J.P., Watson, C.J., Hanclova, I., Sanda, M., Cooper, A., Kraus, T., Brzozowski, A.M. and Jiracek, J. (2011) Non-equivalent role of inter- and intramolecular hydrogen bonds in the insulin dimer interface. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 286(42), pp. 36968-36977. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M111.265249)
Vijayakrishnan, S. , Callow, P., Nutley, M.A., McGow, D.P., Kropholler, P., Cooper, A., Byron, O. and Lindsay, J.G. (2011) Variation in the organization and subunit composition of the mammalian pyruvate dehydrogenase complex E2/E3BP core assembly. Biochemical Journal, 437(3), pp. 565-574. (doi: 10.1042/BJ20101784)
Cooper, A. (2011) Microcalorimetry of heat capacity and volumetric changes in biomolecular interactions-the link to solvation? Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 104(1), pp. 69-73. (doi: 10.1007/s10973-011-1285-3)
Meenan, N.A.G., Ball, G., Bromek, K., Uhrín, D., Cooper, A., Kennedy, M.W. and Smith, B.O. (2011) Solution structure of a repeated unit of the ABA-1 nematode polyprotein allergen of ascaris reveals a novel fold and two discrete lipid-binding sites. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 5(4), e1040. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001040)
Yong, Z., Okoro, L., Cooper, A. and Winter, R. (2011) Applications of pressure perturbation calorimetry in biophysical studies. Biophysical Chemistry, 156(1), pp. 13-23. (doi: 10.1016/j.bpc.2010.12.010)
Zhang, H., Curreli, F., Xihui, Z., Bhattacharya, S., Abdul A., W., Cooper, A., Cowburn, D., Freed, E.O. and Debnath, A.K. (2011) Antiviral activity of alpha-helical stapled peptides designed from the HIV-1 capsid dimerization domain, Retrovirology. Retrovirology, 8(28), (doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-8-28)
Cameron, D.L., Jakus, J., Pauleta, S.R., Pettigrew, G.W. and Cooper, A. (2010) Pressure perturbation calorimetry and the thermodynamics of non-covalent interactions in water: comparison of protein-protein, protein-ligand, and cyclodextrin-adamantane complexes. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 114(49), pp. 16228-16235. (doi: 10.1021/jp107110t)
Cooper, A. and Kennedy, M.W. (2010) Biofoams and natural protein surfactants. Biophysical Chemistry, 151(3), pp. 96-104. (doi: 10.1016/j.bpc.2010.06.006)
Cooper, A. (2010) Protein heat capacity: an anomaly that maybe never was. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 1(22), pp. 3298-3304. (doi: 10.1021/jz1012142)
Stephanou, A. S., Roberts, G. A., Cooper, L. P., Clarke, D. J., Thomson, A. R. , MacKay, C. L., Nutley, M., Cooper, A. and Dryden, D. T.F. (2009) Dissection of the DNA mimicry of the bacteriophage T7 Ocr protein using chemical modification. Journal of Molecular Biology, 391(3), pp. 565-576. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2009.06.020) (PMID:19523474) (PMCID:PMC2806950)
MacKenzie, C.D., Smith, B.O., Meister, A., Blume, A., Zhao, X., Lu, J.R., Kennedy, M.W. and Cooper, A. (2009) Ranaspumin-2: structure and function of a surfactant protein from the foam nests of a tropical frog. Biophysical Journal, 96(12), pp. 4984-4992. (doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.03.044)
Fleming, R.I., MacKenzie, C.D., Cooper, A. and Kennedy, M.W., (2009) Foam nest components of the túngara frog: a cocktail of proteins conferring physical and biological resilience. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 276(1663), pp. 1787-1795. (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1939)
Tron, C.M., McNae, I.W., Nutley, M., Clarke, D.J., Cooper, A., Walkinshaw, M.D., Baxter, R.L. and Campopiano, D.J. (2009) Structural and functional studies of the biotin protein ligase from Aquifex aeolicus reveal a critical role for a conserved residue in target specificity. Journal of Molecular Biology, 387(1), pp. 129-146. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.12.086)
Stephanou, A.S., Roberts, G.A., Tock, M.R., Pritchard, E.H., Turkington, R., Nutley, M., Cooper, A. and Dryden, D.T.F. (2009) A mutational analysis of DNA mimicry by ocr, the gene 0.3 antirestriction protein of bacteriophage T7. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 378(1), pp. 129-132. (doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.11.014)
Bigot, J. et al. (2009) LCST: a powerful tool to control complexation between a dialkoxynaphthalene-functionalised poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) and CBPQT(4+) in water. Chemical Communications(35), pp. 5266-5268. (doi: 10.1039/b910856d)
Cardoso, T. et al. (2009) Acetonitrile-induced unfolding of porcine pepsin A: a proposal for a critical role of hydration structures in conformational stability. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 45(3), pp. 213-220. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2009.05.006)
McDonald, R.E., Fleming, R.I., Beeley, J.G., Bovell, D.L., Lu, J.R., Zhao, X., Cooper, A. and Kennedy, M.W. (2009) Latherin: a surfactant protein of horse sweat and saliva. PLoS ONE, 4(5), e5726. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005726) (PMID:19478940) (PMCID:PMC2684629)
Oke, M. et al. (2008) Unusual chromophore and cross-links in ranasmurfin: a blue protein from the foam nests of a tropical frog. Angewandte Chemie (International Edition), 47(41), 7853 -7856. (doi: 10.1002/anie.200802901)
Caldwell, S. T. , Cooke, G. , Cooper, A., Nutley, M., Rabani, G., Rotello, V., Smith, B. O. and Woisel, P. (2008) Tuneable pseudorotaxane formation between a biotin-avidin bioconjugate and CBPQT(4+). Chemical Communications(23), pp. 2650-2652. (doi: 10.1039/b803856b)
Serfiotis-Mitsa, D., Roberts, G. A., Cooper, L. P., White, J. H., Nutley, M., Cooper, A., Blakely, G. W. and Dryden, D. T. F. (2008) The Orf18 Gene Product from Conjugative Transposon Tn916 Is an ArdA Antirestriction Protein that Inhibits Type I DNA Restriction-Modification Systems. Journal of Molecular Biology, 383(5), pp. 970-981. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2008.06.005)
Guthrie, K.M., Parenty, A.D.C., Smith, L.V., Cronin, L. and Cooper, A. (2007) Microcalorimetry of interaction of dihydro-imidazo-phenanthridinium (DIP)-based compounds with duplex DNA. Biophysical Chemistry, 126(1-3), pp. 117-123. (doi: 10.1016/j.bpc.2006.05.006)
Bria, M., Cooke, G. , Cooper, A., Garety, J., Hewage, S., Nutley, M., Rabani, G. and Woisel, P. (2007) An investigation of the complexation properties of cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) in water. Tetrahedron Letters, 48, pp. 301-304. (doi: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2006.11.003)
Bria, M., Cooke, G. , Cooper, A., Delattre, F., Hewage, S. G., Rabani, G., Nutley, M. and Woisel, P. (2007) An investigation of the complexation of a TTF derivative with alpha-, beta- and gamma-cyclodextrins in aqueous media. Tetrahedron Letters, 48(48), pp. 8430-8433. (doi: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2007.09.167)
Cooper, A., Cameron, D., Jakus, J. and Pettigrew, G. W. (2007) Pressure perturbation calorimetry, heat capacity and the role of water in protein stability and interactions. Biochemical Society Transactions, 35(6), pp. 1547-1550. (doi: 10.1042/BST0351547)
Lamb, H. et al. (2007) Functional analysis of the GTPases EngA and YhbZ encoded by Salmonella typhimurium. Protein Science, 16, pp. 2391-2402. (doi: 10.1110/ps.072900907)
Pereira, P., Kelly, S., Cooper, A., Mardon, H., Gellert, P. and van der Walle, C. (2007) Solution formulation and lyophilisation of a recombinant fibronectin fragment. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 67, pp. 309-319. (doi: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2007.03.009)
McMahon, S.A. et al. (2006) Crystallization of Ranasmurfin, a blue-coloured protein from Polypedates leucomystax. Acta Crystallographica. Section F: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications, 62, pp. 1124-1126. (doi: 10.1107/S1744309106040036)
Smolle, M., Prior, A.E., Brown, A.E., Cooper, A., Byron, O. and Lindsay, J.G. (2006) A new level of architectural complexity in the human pyruvate dehydrogenase complex. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 281(28), pp. 19772-19780. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M601140200)
Lamb, H., Mee, C., Xu, W., Liu, L., Blond, S., Cooper, A., Charles, I. and Hawkins, A. (2006) The affinity of a major Ca2+ binding site on GRP78 is differentially enhanced by ADP and ATP. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 281, pp. 8796-8805. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M503964200)
Cooper, A., Kennedy, M.W. , Fleming, R.I., Wilson, E.H., Videler, H., Wokosin, D.L., Su, T., Green, R.J. and Lu, J.R. (2005) Adsorption of frog foam nest proteins at the air-water interface. Biophysical Journal, 88(3), pp. 2114-2125. (doi: 10.1529/biophysj.104.046268)
Cooper, A. (2005) Heat capacity effects in protein folding and ligand binding: a re-evaluation of the role of water in biomolecular thermodynamics. Biophysical Chemistry, 115, pp. 89-97. (doi: 10.1016/j.bpc.2004.12.011)
Cooper, A., Nutley, M., MacLean, E., Cameron, K., Fielding, L., Mestres, J. and Palin, R. (2005) Mutual induced fit in cyclodextrin-rocuronium complexes. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 3, pp. 1863-1871.
Meenan, N.A.G., Cooper, A., Kennedy, M.W. and Smith, B. (2005) Resonance assignment of ABA-1A, from Ascaris suum nematode polyprotein allergen. Journal of Biomolecular NMR, 32(2), p. 176. (doi: 10.1007/s10858-005-6070-9)
Pauleta, S.R., Cooper, A., Nutley, M., Errington, N., Harding, S., Guerlesquin, F., Goodhew, C.F., Moura, I., Moura, J.J.G. and Pettigrew, G.W. (2004) A copper protein and a cytochrome bind at the same site on bacterial cytochrome c peroxidase. Biochemistry, 43(46), pp. 14566-14576. (doi: 10.1021/bi0485833)
Lamb, H. et al. (2004) Modulation of the ligand binding properties of the transcription repressor NmrA by GATA-containing DNA and site-directed mutagenesis. Protein Science, 13, pp. 3127-3138. (doi: 10.1110/ps.04958904)
Park, A., Lamb, H., Nichols, C., Moore, J., Brown, K., Cooper, A., Charles, I., Stammers, D. and Hawkins, A. (2004) Biophysical and kinetic analysis of wild-type and site-directed mutants of the isolated and native dehydroquinate synthase domain of the AROM protein. Protein Science, 13, pp. 2108-2119. (doi: 10.1110/ps.04705404)
Alexeev, D. et al. (2003) Synthesis, structural and biological studies of ubiquitin mutants containing (2S, 4S)-5-fluoroleucine residues strategically placed in the hydrophobic core. ChemBioChem, 4(9), pp. 894-896. (doi: 10.1002/cbic.200300699)
Garofalo, A., Rowlinson, M.C., Amambua, N.A., Hughes, J.M., Kelly, S.M. , Price, N.C., Cooper, A., Watson, D.G., Kennedy, M.W. and Bradley, J.E. (2003) The FAR protein family of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans - Differential lipid binding properties, structural characteristics, and developmental regulation. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278, pp. 8065-8074. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M206278200)
Jung, H., Cooper, A. and Perham, R. (2003) Interactions of the peripheral subunit-binding domain of the dihydrolipoyl acetyltransferase component in the assembly of the pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex of Bacillus stearothermophilus. European Journal of Biochemistry, 270, pp. 4488-4496. (doi: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2003.03842.x)
Lamb, H., Leslie, K., Dodds, A., Nutley, M., Cooper, A., Johnson, C., Thompson, P., Stammers, D. and Hawkins, A. (2003) The negative transcriptional regulator NmrA discriminates between oxidized and reduced dinucleotides. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278, pp. 32107-32114. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.M304104200)
Pettigrew, G., Goodhew, C., Cooper, A., Nutley, M., Jumel, K. and Harding, S. (2003) The electron transfer complexes of cytochrome c peroxidase from Paracoccus denitrificans. Biochemistry, 42, pp. 2046-2055. (doi: 10.1021/bi027125w)
Pettigrew, G. et al. (2003) Electron transfer complexes of cytochrome c peroxidase from Paracoccus denitrificans containing more than one cytochrome. Biochemistry, 42, pp. 11968-11981. (doi: 10.1021/bi034829c)
Jung, H.I., Bowden, S.J., Cooper, A. and Perham, R.N. (2002) Thermodynamic analysis of the binding of component enzymes in the assembly of the pyruvate dehydrogenase multienzyme complex of Bacillus stearothermophilus. Protein Science, 11(5), pp. 1091-1100. (doi: 10.1110/ps.4970102)
Wright, E.R., McMillan, R.A., Cooper, A., Apkarian, R.P. and Conticello, V.P. (2002) Thermoplastic elastomer hydrogels via self-assembly of an elastin-mimetic triblock polypeptide. Advanced Functional Materials, 12(2), pp. 149-154. (doi: 10.1002/1616-3028(20020201)12:2<149::AID-ADFM149>3.0.CO;2-N)
Cameron, D. and Cooper, A. (2002) Pressure perturbation Calorimetry of solvation changes in cyclodextrin complexes. Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry, 44, pp. 279-282.
Cameron, K., Clark, J. , Cooper, A., Fielding, L., Palin, R., Rutherford, S. and Zhang, M. (2002) Modified gamma-cyclodextrins and their rocuronium complexes. Organic Letters, 4, pp. 3403-3406. (doi: 10.1021/ol020126w)
Jung, H.I., Cooper, A. and Perham, R.N. (2002) Identification of key amino acid residues in the assembly of enzymes into the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex of Bacillus stearothermophilus: A kinetic and thermodynamic analysis. Biochemistry, 41(33), pp. 10446-10453. (doi: 10.1021/bi020147y)
McDermott, L., Kennedy, M.W. , McManus, D.P., Bradley, J.E., Cooper, A. and Storch, J. (2002) How helminth lipid-binding proteins offload their ligands to membranes: Differential mechanisms of fatty acid transfer by the ABA-1 polyprotein allergen and Ov-FAR-1 proteins of nematodes and Sj-FABPc of schistosomes. Biochemistry, 41(21), pp. 6706-6713. (doi: 10.1021/bi0159635)
Semenova, E., Cooper, A., Wilson, C. and Converse, C. (2002) Stabilization of all-trans-retinol by cyclodextrins: A comparative study using HPLC and fluorescence spectroscopy. Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry, 44, pp. 155-158.
Smith, S.A., Krishnasamy, G., Murthy, K.H.M., Cooper, A., Bromek, K., Barlow, P.N. and Kotwal, G.J. (2002) Vaccinia virus complement control protein is monomeric, and retains structural and functional integrity after exposure to adverse conditions. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Proteins and Proteomics, 1598, pp. 55-64.
Pommer, A.J. et al. (2001) Mechanism and cleavage specificity of the H-N-H endonuclease colicin E9. Journal of Molecular Biology, 314(4), pp. 735-749. (doi: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.5189)
Cooper, A., Johnson, C.M., Lakey, J.H. and Nollmann, M. (2001) Heat does not come in different colours: entropy-enthalpy compensation, free energy windows, quantum confinement, pressure perturbation calorimetry, solvation and the multiple causes of heat capacity effects in biomolecular interactions. Biophysical Chemistry, 93(2-3), pp. 215-230. (doi: 10.1016/S0301-4622(01)00222-8)
Kennedy, M.W. , Heikema, A.P., Cooper, A., Bjorkman, P.J. and Sanchez, L.M. (2001) Hydrophobic ligand binding by Zn-alpha(2)-glycoprotein, a soluble fat-depleting factor related to major histocompatibility complex proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 276(37), pp. 35008-35013. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.C100301200)
Krell, T., Maclean, J., Boam, D.J., Cooper, A., Resmini, M., Brocklehurst, K., Kelly, S.M., Price, N.C., Lapthorn, A.J. and Coggins, J.R. (2001) Biochemical and X-ray crystallographic studies on shikimate kinase: the important structural role of the P-loop lysine. Protein Science, 10(6), pp. 1137-1149. (doi: 10.1110/ps.52501)
Brockwell, D., Yu, L., Cooper, S., McCleland, S., Cooper, A., Attwood, D., Gaskell, S.J. and Barber, J. (2001) Physicochemical consequences of the perdeuteriation of glutathione S-transferase from S. japonicum. Protein Science, 10(3), pp. 572-580. (doi: 10.1110/ps.46001)
Baxa, U., Cooper, A., Weintraub, N., Pfeil, W. and Seckler, R. (2001) Enthalpic barriers to the hydrophobic binding of oligosaccharides to phage P22 tailspike protein. Biochemistry, 40(17), pp. 5144-5150. (doi: 10.1021/bi0020426)
Clarke, C., Woods, R.J., Gluska, J., Cooper, A., Nutley, M.A. and Boons, G.J. (2001) Involvement of water in carbohydrate-protein binding. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 123(49), pp. 12238-12247. (doi: 10.1021/ja004315q)
Hammann, C., Cooper, A. and Lilley, D.M.J. (2001) Thermodynamics of ion-induced RNA folding in the hammerhead ribozyme: An isothermal titration calorimetric study. Biochemistry, 40(5), pp. 1423-1429. (doi: 10.1021/bi002231o)
Luck, M., Griffiths, S., Gregson, K., Watson, E., Nutley, M. and Cooper, A. (2001) Follicular fluid responds endothermically to aqueous dilution. Human Reproduction, 16, pp. 2508-2514.
McDermott, L., Moore, J., Brass, A., Price, N.C., Kelly, S.M. , Cooper, A. and Kennedy, M. (2001) Mutagenic and chemical modification of the ABA-1 allergen of the nematode Ascaris: Consequences for structure and lipid binding properties. Biochemistry, 40(33), pp. 9918-9926. (doi: 10.1021/bi0026876)
Prior, A., Jones, J.T., Blok, V.C., Beauchamp, J., McDermott, L., Cooper, A. and Kennedy, M.W. (2001) A surface-associated retinol- and fatty acid-binding protein (Gp-FAR-1) from the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida: lipid binding activities, structural analysis and expression pattern. Biochemical Journal, 356, pp. 387-394.
Xie, H.F., Bolam, D.N., Nagy, T., Szabo, L., Cooper, A., Simpson, P.J., Lakey, J.H., Williamson, M.P. and Gilbert, H.J. (2001) Role of hydrogen bonding in the interaction between a xylan binding module and xylan. Biochemistry, 40(19), pp. 5700-5707. (doi: 10.1021/bi010034z)
Cooper, A. (2000) Heat capacity of hydrogen-bonded networks: an alternative view of protein folding thermodynamics. Biophysical Chemistry, 85(1), pp. 25-39. (doi: 10.1016/S0301-4622(00)00136-8)
Cooper, A. (1999) Thermodynamic analysis of biomolecular interactions. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology, 3(5), pp. 557-563. (doi: 10.1016/S1367-5931(99)00008-3)
McPhail, D. and Cooper, A. (1997) Thermodynamics and kinetics of dissociation of ligand-induced dimers of vancomycin antibiotics. Journal of the Chemical Society: Faraday Transactions, 93(13), pp. 2283-2289. (doi: 10.1039/a701327b)
Cooper, A., Lovatt, M. and Nutley, M.A. (1996) Energetics of protein-cyclodextrin interactions. Journal of Inclusion Phenomena and Molecular Recognition in Chemistry, 25(1-3), pp. 85-88. (doi: 10.1007/BF01041542)
Lovatt, M., Cooper, A. and Camilleri, P. (1996) Energetics of cyclodextrin-induced dissociation of insulin. European Biophysics Journal with Biophysics Letters, 24(5), pp. 354-357.
Wilson, G., Ford, S. J., Cooper, A., Hecht, L., Wen, Z. Q. and Barron, L. D. (1995) Vibrational Raman optical activity of α-lactalbumin: comparison with lysozyme, and evidence for native tertiary folds in molten globule states. Journal of Molecular Biology, 254(4), pp. 747-760. (doi: 10.1006/jmbi.1995.0652) (PMID:7500347)
Kennedy, M. W. , Britton, C. , Price, N. C., Kelly, S. M. and Cooper, A. (1995) The DvA-1 polyprotein of the parasitic nematode Dictyocaulus viviparus. A small helix-rich lipid-binding protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 270(33), pp. 19277-19281. (doi: 10.1074/jbc.270.33.19277) (PMID:7642601)
Ford, S. J., Cooper, A., Hecht, L., Wilson, G. and Barron, L. D. (1995) Vibrational Raman optical activity of lysozyme: hydrogen–deuterium exchange, unfolding and ligand binding. Journal of the Chemical Society: Faraday Transactions, 91(14), pp. 2087-2093. (doi: 10.1039/FT9959102087)
Cooper, A., Mcalpine, A. and Stockley, P. G. (1994) Calorimetric studies of the energetics of protein—DNA interactions in the E. coli methionine repressor (MetJ) system. FEBS Letters, 348(1), pp. 41-45. (doi: 10.1016/0014-5793(94)00579-6)
Barron, L. D., Ford, S. J., Bell, A. F., Wilson, G., Hecht, L. and Cooper, A. (1994) Vibrational Raman optical activity of biopolymers. Faraday Discussions, 99, pp. 217-232. (doi: 10.1039/FD9949900217)
Ford, S.J., Barron, L.D., Cooper, A., Hecht, L. and Wen, Z.Q. (1992) Vibrational Raman optical activity of proteins. Proceedings of the SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering, 1922, pp. 46-50. (doi: 10.1117/12.146179)
Barron, L. D., Cooper, A., Ford, S. J., Hecht, L. and Wen, Z. Q. (1992) Vibrational Raman optical activity of enzymes. Faraday Discussions, 93, pp. 259-268. (doi: 10.1039/FD9929300259) (PMID:1290937)
Cooper, A. (1992) Effect of Cyclodextrins on the Thermal-Stability of Globular- Proteins. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 114(23), pp. 9208-9209.
Cooper, A., Mackenzie, R. K., MacNicol, D. D. and Rycroft, D. S. (1980) Internal rotation in a guest molecule complexed with β-cyclodextrin in deuterium oxide solution. Journal of Chemical Research, Synopses(3), pp. 120-121.
Books
Cooper, A. (2011) Biophysical Chemistry. Series: Tutorial Chemistry Texts, 24. Royal Society of Chemistry: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781849730815
Cooper, A. (2004) Biophysical Chemistry. Series: Tutorial Chemistry Texts, 16. Royal Society of Chemistry: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780854044801
Book Sections
Cooper, A. (2018) Thermodynamic fluctuations. In: Roberts, G., Watts, A. and European Biophysical Societies, (eds.) Encyclopedia of Biophysics. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg. ISBN 9783642359439 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-35943-9_10070-1)
Cooper, A. (2018) Van't Hoff analysis and hidden thermodynamic variables. In: Roberts, G., Watts, A. and European Biophysical Societies, (eds.) Encyclopedia of Biophysics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg: Berlin, Heidelberg. ISBN 9783642359439 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-35943-9)
Kennedy, M.W., Córsico, B., Cooper, A. and Smith, B.O. (2013) The unusual lipid-binding proteins of nematodes: NPAs, nemFABPs and FARs. In: Kennedy, M. and Harnett, m. (eds.) Parasitic Nematodes: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Immunology [2nd. ed.]. CABI; Wallingford; UK, pp. 397-412. ISBN 9781845937591 (doi: 10.1079/9781845937591.0397)
Cooper, A. (2009) Physical chemistry in biology. In: Begley, T.P. (ed.) Wiley Encyclopedia of Chemical Biology. John Wiley & Sons.: Hoboken, N.J.. ISBN 9780471754770 (set)
Cooper, A. (2007) Microcalorimetry and related techniques. In: Marks, R.S., Cullen, D.C., Karube, I., Lowe, C.R. and Weetall, H.H. (eds.) Handbook of Biosensors and Biochips. Wiley: Chichester, UK, pp. 659-670. ISBN 9780470019054
Semenova, E.M., Cooper, A., Kennedy, M.W. , Wilson, C.G. and Converse, C.A. (2001) Systems for delivery of Vitamin A to the retina in retinitis pigmentosa. In: Anderson, R.E., LaVail, M.M. and Hollyfield, J.G. (eds.) New insights into retinal degenerative diseases. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Pub.,: New York, USA, pp. 105-110. ISBN 9780306466793
Barron, L.D., Hecht, L., Wen, Z.Q., Ford, S.J., Bell, A.F. and Cooper, A. (1992) Vibrational Raman optical activity of biological molecules. In: Kiefer, W. (ed.) Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Raman Spectroscopy, 31 August - 4 September 1992, Würzburg, Germany. Wiley: Chichester, pp. 462-463. ISBN 9780471933359