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SFB 473:  Mechanisms of Transcrptional Regulation

Subject Area Biology
Medicine
Term from 1997 to 2009
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5481435
 
The goal of the collaborative research centre 473 is the identification of regulatory proteins for transcription and the structural, biochemical, kinetic and theoretical understanding of their properties. The focus includes effector molecules and proteins from signaling cascades leading to transcription factors. The objects are derived from a large variety of organisms, including bacteria, yeast, plants and man. Our working hypothesis is that the on/off mechanisms of proteins involved in signal transfer and transcriptional regulation show similarities, whereas the biological consequences of their action are quite different and include differentiation in bacteria, plants and man, preferential selection of nutrients by bacteria, the sink/source transition of cells in growing leafs, and an on/off switch of a resistance gene. The center is divided into three subject areas and a hosts a total of 13 projects. The experimental approaches include quantum mechanics and molecular modeling of protein-ligand interaction, fluorescence spectroscopy, biochemistry, and molecular and cell biology.
DFG Programme Collaborative Research Centres
International Connection USA

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Spokesperson Professor Dr. Wolfgang Hillen (†)
 
 

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