Sheena Radford

Sheena Radford
Born Sheena Elizabeth Radford
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis Domains and conformational flexibility in the catalytic mechanism of the 2-oxo acid dehydrogenase complexes (1987)
Notable awards
Website
www.astbury.leeds.ac.uk/bmbsgi10

Sheena Elizabeth Radford FRS FMedSci is a British biophysicist, and Astbury Professor of Biophysics in the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Leeds.[2]

Education

Radford was educated at the University of Birmingham and the University of Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD in 1987.[3][4]

Research

Radford's research investigates protein folding, protein aggregation and amyloid disease.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Awards and honours

Radford is a member of Faculty of 1000.[12] Radford was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2014; her nomination reads:

Sheena Radford is internationally distinguished for her seminal contributions to understanding how the dynamical properties of proteins enable them to fold and function biologically, or to misfold and cause degenerative diseases. She has used sophisticated experimental techniques to characterise protein folding pathways in exquisite detail, in particular demonstrating that non-native as well as native-like interactions can play key roles in stabilising partially folded intermediate states. She has built on these findings to define key steps in the aberrant self-assembly of misfolded proteins into amyloid fibrils, particularly in dialysis related amyloidosis, and to relate these molecular processes to pathogenesis.[1]

Radford was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2010. Her nomination reads:

Sheena Radford is Professor of Structural Molecular Biology at the University of Leeds. Her achievements have involved the innovative application of biophysical techniques to protein folding problems. Her early work in Oxford on hen lysozyme was the foundation for current views that proteins fold on complex multidimensional landscapes, commonly known as folding funnels. She has extended her research to encompass misfolding and disease and has also developed new physical methods to study ultrafast processes. Sheena's work on dialysis-dependent amyloidosis has shown that protein unfolding of beta-2-microglobulin is a key step in fibril formation.[13]

In 1986, Radford was awarded the Colworth Medal from the Biochemical Society.

References

  1. 1 2 "Professor Sheena Radford FMedSci FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2014-09-30.
  2. ↑ Sheena Radford's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  3. ↑ Radford, Sheena Elizabeth (1987). Domains and conformational flexibility in the catalytic mechanism of the 2-oxo acid dehydrogenase complexes (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
  4. ↑ "Prof Sheena Radford | Faculty of Biological Sciences". University of Leeds. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  5. ↑ Booth, D. R.; Sunde, M; Bellotti, V; Robinson, C. V.; Hutchinson, W. L.; Fraser, P. E.; Hawkins, P. N.; Dobson, C. M.; Radford, S. E.; Blake, C. C.; Pepys, M. B. (1997). "Instability, unfolding and aggregation of human lysozyme variants underlying amyloid fibrillogenesis". Nature 385 (6619): 787–93. doi:10.1038/385787a0. PMID 9039909.
  6. ↑ Radford, S. E.; Dobson, C. M.; Evans, P. A. (1992). "The folding of hen lysozyme involves partially structured intermediates and multiple pathways". Nature 358 (6384): 302–7. doi:10.1038/358302a0. PMID 1641003.
  7. ↑ Linse, S.; Cabaleiro-Lago, C.; Xue, W. -F.; Lynch, I.; Lindman, S.; Thulin, E.; Radford, S. E.; Dawson, K. A. (2007). "Nucleation of protein fibrillation by nanoparticles". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (21): 8691. doi:10.1073/pnas.0701250104.
  8. ↑ Brockwell, D. J.; Paci, E.; Zinober, R. C.; Beddard, G. S.; Olmsted, P. D.; Smith, D. A.; Perham, R. N.; Radford, S. E. (2003). "Pulling geometry defines the mechanical resistance of a β-sheet protein". Nature Structural Biology 10 (9): 731. doi:10.1038/nsb968. PMID 12923573.
  9. ↑ Dobson, C. M.; Evans, P. A.; Radford, S. E. (1994). "Understanding how proteins fold: The lysozyme story so far". Trends in Biochemical Sciences 19 (1): 31–7. doi:10.1016/0968-0004(94)90171-6. PMID 8140619.
  10. ↑ Miranker, A; Robinson, C. V.; Radford, S. E.; Aplin, R. T.; Dobson, C. M. (1993). "Detection of transient protein folding populations by mass spectrometry". Science 262 (5135): 896–900. doi:10.1126/science.8235611. PMID 8235611.
  11. ↑ Aggeli, A.; Bell, M.; Boden, N.; Keen, J. N.; Knowles, P. F.; McLeish, T. C. B.; Pitkeathly, M.; Radford, S. E. (1997). "Responsive gels formed by the spontaneous self-assembly of peptides into polymeric β-sheet tapes". Nature 386 (6622): 259. doi:10.1038/386259a0. PMID 9069283.
  12. ↑ "Sheena Radford: Section Head in Protein Chemistry & Proteomics". F1000Prime. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  13. ↑ "Professor Sheena Radford FRS FMedSci". London: Academy of Medial Sciences. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06.


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