Max Planck Research Center for Enzymology of Protein Folding
The Max Planck Research Center for Enzymology of Protein Folding was a non-university research facility of the Max Planck Society based in Halle an der Saale . The focus was on basic research regarding the influence of the conformational change of proteins and peptides on their biological activity. The research center was headed by the biochemist Gunter S. Fischer at the time of its existence .
history
Founded in June 1996, it has been housed in the Halle Biozentrum since September 1998. There are also some research groups from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . The research center was closed on December 31, 2012.
Research structure
The Max Planck Research Center for Enzymology of Protein Folding had a total of 7 working groups and a further 2 independent junior research groups.
- Cell biology
- Signal transduction
- Organic chemistry
- Peptide synthesis
- Heat shock proteins as enzymatic folding catalysts
- NMR spectroscopy
- Mass spectrometry
The independent junior research groups dealt with:
- PDI chaperones and client proteins in cancer pathogenesis,
- Protein folding and aggregation.
literature
- Research Center for Enzymology of Protein Folding of the Max Planck Society / Max Planck Research Unit for Enzymology of Protein Folding (Max Planck Research Unit “Enzymology of Protein Folding”) (BMS) , in: Eckart Henning , Marion Kazemi : Handbuch zur Institutgeschichte der Kaiser -Wilhelm- / Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science 1911–2011 - Data and Sources , Berlin 2016, 2 volumes, volume 1: Institutes and research centers A – L ( online, PDF, 75 MB ) Pages 441–445 (Chronology the research center)
Web links
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 51 ″ N , 11 ° 56 ′ 27 ″ E