Max Planck Research Unit for Enzymology of Protein Folding
The Max Planck Research Unit for Enzymology of Protein Folding was a research institute of the Max Planck Society, based in Halle an der Saale. The focus was on basic research concerning the influence of the conformation of proteins and peptides on their biological activity. The Research Centre was conducted in the period of their existence by the biochemist Gunter S. Fischer.
History
Founded in June 1996, it was housed in the Biozentrum Halle since September 1998. The area also has a few research groups of the Martin -Luther- University Halle- Wittenberg. The Research Centre was closed on 31 December 2012.
Research Structure
The Max Planck Research Unit for Enzymology of Protein Folding pointed to a total of seven working groups and further 2 independent junior research groups.
- Cell Biology
- Signal transduction
- Organic chemistry
- Peptide synthesis
- Heat shock proteins as enzymatic folding catalysts
- NMR
- Mass spectrometry
The independent junior research groups concerned with:
- PDI chaperones and client proteins in cancer pathogenesis,
- Protein folding and aggregation.