Chair of Biomimetic Chemistry
Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Amsterdam Institute of Molecular and Life Sciences
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Congratulations to our colleagues from Molecular Toxicology! Great to be part of the team!
“Linking cytochrome P450 enzymes from Mycobacterium tuberculosis to their cognate ferredoxin partners”
S Ortega Ugalde, CP de Koning, K Wallraven, B Bruyneel, NPE Vermeulen, TN Grossmann, W Bitter, JNM Commandeur, JC Vos* DOI: 10.1007/s00253-018-9299-4
“Protein-RNA interactions: Structural characteristics and hotspot amino acids”
DM Krüger, S Neubacher, TN Grossmann*, DOI: 10.1261/rna.066464.118
Congratulations to Jan Lowe (MCR Cambridge), Joen Luirink (VU Amsterdam) and their teams! Great collaboration!
“Structural analysis of the interaction between the bacterial cell division proteins FtsQ and FtsB”
D Kureisaite‑Ciziene, A Varadajan, SH McLaughlin, M Glas, AM Sliva, R Luirink, C Mueller, T den Blaauwen, TN Grossmann, J Luirink*, J Löwe* DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01346-18; bioRxiv doi.org/10.1101/362335
Under https://pri-hotscore.labs.vu.nl you can upload atomic coordinates of protein-RNA complexes to identify potential amino acid hot spots in the interface.
Read more here: Krüger et al., RNA, 2018
“In situ cyclization of native proteins: Structure-based design of a bicyclic enzyme”
M Pelay‑Gimeno, T Bange, S Hennig, TN Grossmann*, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201804506 (open access: PDF)
Congratulations to Jessi Bertrand and her team! We’re glad to see StAx peptides in action.
“Targeting β-catenin dependent Wnt signaling via peptidomimetic inhibitors in murine chondrocytes and OA cartilage”
A Held, A Glas, L Dietrich, M Bollmann, K Brandstädter, TN Grossmann, CH Lohmann, T Pap, J Bertrand*, DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2018.02.908
Welcome Felix – Congratulations for receiving the STAR PLUS fellowship!
All the best for your joint project with Joen Luirink (Molecular Microbiology) and Daan Geerke (Molecular Toxicology)!
All the best for the holidays and the New Year!
“The therapeutic potential of PTEN modulation: Targeting strategies from gene to protein”
NM McLoughlin, C Mueller, TN Grossmann*, DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2017.10.009
“Oligonucleotides with cationic backbone and their hybridization with DNA: Interplay of base pairing and electrostatic attraction”
B Schmidtgall, A Kuepper, M Meng, TN Grossmann*, C Ducho*, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201704338
“Structure-based design of macrocyclic peptides that inhibit protein-protein interactions”
DM Krüger, A Glas, D Bier, N Pospiech, K Wallraven, L Dietrich, C Ottmann, O Koch*, S Hennig*, TN Grossmann*, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.7b01221
This communication is featured on the inside cover.
“Increased conformational flexibility of a macrocycle-receptor complex contributes to reduced dissociation rates”
A Glas, EC Wamhoff, DM Krüger, C Rademacher*, TN Grossmann*, DOI: 10.1002/chem.201702776
“Cell Permeable Stapled Peptide Inhibitor of Wnt Signaling that Targets β-catenin Protein-Protein Interactions”
L Dietrich, B Rathmer, K Ewan, T Bange, S Heinrichs, TC Dale, D Schade, TN Grossmann*, DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2017.06.013
We thank our collaborators for their contributions!!
Laura successfully defended her PhD thesis “Zellgängige Peptide zur Inhibition des Wnt/β-catenin Signalwegs”.
Combining the best of small molecules and biologics (page 12)
Congratulations to the Dissmeyer and Flashman labs and thanks for having us onboard!
“Plant cysteine oxidases are dioxygenases that directly enable arginyl transferase-catalysed arginylation of N-end rule targets”
MD White, M Klecker, R Hopkinson, D Weits, C Mueller, C Naumann, R O’Neill, J Wickens, J Yang, JC Brooks‑Bartlett, EF Garman, TN Grossmann, N Dissmeyer*, E Flashman*, DOI: 10.1101/ncomms14690
Congratulations to Kerstin and Adrian who recieved prizes for their proster presentations at the German Peptide Symposium!
Congratulations to the entire AztraZeneca/MPI satellite team!
“New modalities for challanging targets in drug discovery”
E Valeur*, SM Gueret, H Adihou, R Gopalakrishnan, M Lemurell, H Waldmann, TN Grossmann, AT Plowright, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201611914
Welcome, Niall and Mathias! All the best for your PhD research!
“Translocation of an intracellular protein via peptide-directed ligation”
C Stiller, DM Krüger, N Brauckhoff, M Schmidt, P Janning, H Salamon, TN Grossmann*, DOI: 10.1021/acschembio.6b01013
