Methods for Fragments Screening Using Surface Plasmon Resonance

Dr. Ramachandraiah Gosu is Associate Director, Discovery Biology & Head of Structural Biology Department at Jubilant Biosys Ltd, Bengaluru. His research interests are protein engineering, macromolecular X-ray crystallography and methods for biophysical screening.  Before joining Jubilant Biosys, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in the Structural Genomics Project- Pathogenic Island Proteins from Staphylococcus aureus. He has obtained his Ph.D. in, Structural Biology from Molecular Biophysics Unit at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.  He has co-authored several articles in peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Sameer Mahmood. Z is Group Leader at the Jubilant Biosys Ltd, Bengaluru, India. He has earlier served as Associate Principal Scientist in the Department of invitro biology at GVK Bioscience Ltd, Hyderabad, India, and Principal Scientist I in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Advinus Therapeutics Ltd, Pune. He also did postdoctoral training in the Department of Stem Cell and Molecular Biology at Joslin Diabetes Center (Harvard University), Boston, USA. His research interest is in the high throughput screening of proteins using robotics with specialization in protein-drug (Fragments and Small molecules) interactions. He has been accolade with several awards in Stem cell research, Jackson Laboratory (USA), Asia ARVO (Singapore), Research Achievement Award (USA), CEO award for Excellence in Project Management (India). He has published several research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and co-authored a book chapter.

Chapter 1. Introduction to Surface Plasmon Resonance.- Chapter 2. Principle of Surface Plasmon Resonance (OneStep).- Chapter 3. Preparation of protein with Histidine Tag for Amine coupling.- Chapter 4. Preparation of protein with Avidin Tag for Biotin-based Capture.- Chapter 5. Protein stability using Thermal Shift Assay (TSA) – pH Tolerance.- Chapter 6. Protein stability using Thermal Shift Assay (TSA) – DMSO Tolerance.- Chapter 7. Selection and Identification of Fragment library.- Chapter 8. Preparation of Sensor.- Chapter 9. Optimization and validation of Amine coupling of Ligand.- Chapter 10. Optimization and Validation of Strepavidin/Biotin-based capture of Ligand.- Chapter 11. Preparation of Fragments for Screening in SPR.- Chapter 12. Screening of Fragments in SPR.- Chapter 13. Identification of Fragment Hits.- Chapter 14. Data Analysis and Confirmation of Hits.