The Chair of Biochemistry IV is engaged in many areas of research in structural biology relevant to human disease and to our general understanding of basic biological processes around the central dogma of molecular biology.

In our lab we characterise proteins, RNAs and their interaction partners in molecular detail. We apply a variety of molecular biology, biochemical and biophysical methods. Furthermore, we use the entire range of structural biology methods, including solution-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy and small-angle scattering to enable integrative structure modelling of biomolecular complexes. These high-resolution structures are then exploited to obtain functional insights into a diverse set of molecular mechanism: e.g. transcription, translation, the complex life of RNA and antiviral defence.

23.01.2023
New publication in Nucleic Acids Res
doi: 10.1093/nar/gkac1277

22.11.2022
New publication in JACS
doi: 10.1021/jacs.2c07378