Christoph Mayer, Heisenberg Research Group of the DFG
Bacterial Cell Wall Metabolism & Enzymology of Carbohydrate Active Enzymes
Research in my group is located in the intercept between chemistry and biology.
Our major goal is to understand biological systems at the molecular level
and our affort currently focuses on following topics:
- Identification of novel enzymes and elucidation of structure, function, and mechanism of enzymes involved in the bacterial cell wall recycling pathway
- Elucidation of aminosugar metabolic pathways and their regulation in environmental and pathogenic microorganisms
- Protein engineering (directed evolution) of protein function and metabolic engineering (cell wall engineering)
Some of our current projects are:
- Cell wall recycling metabolism in E. coli and B. subtilis
- Adaptation of peptidoglycan catabolism in pathogenic and environmental bacteria
- Structure and mechanism of MurNAc etherases (carbon-oxygen lyases/hydrolases)
- Structure and mechanism of (anhydro)MurNAc kinases
- Structure and mechanism of regulators of MurNAc metabolism
More Information regarding our research can be found here:
!!! Jonathan Gisin erhält
ein "Dr. Marietta-Lutze-Stipendium" der Firma Dr. Kade AG
