Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID) -- Year X

Capabilities: 
Lead Institution: 
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Principal Investigator: 
Garry Buchko
Project ID: 
49703
Abstract: 

As witnessed by the recent Zika virus scare, developing new drugs to combat emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases is of upmost importance. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has identified the need to prepare a library of three-dimensional protein structures of potential drug targets that may be used for the structure-based design of new drugs. Towards populating this library NIAID has established two structural genomics centers: The Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Disease (CSGID) and the Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID). The high-field suite of NMR spectrometers at EMSL will assist the population of the structure library with the high-field NMR data used to determine the solution structure for 2-3 proteins identified as potential drug targets.