Projects in protein crystallography of GSY

The Synchrotron Group of IBS has two activities. The first one is focused on instrumentation and methodology development, and includes developments that range from crystallization to room temperature data collection. The second one deals with the structure elucidation of fluorescent proteins, plant proteins and proteins of human health interest. We work on enzymes of the MEP pathway since they constitute interesting drug targets. We study also fluorescent proteins by combining Xray diffraction and online spectro. We are involved in the characterization of the plastid-encoded prokaryotic-type RNA polymerase (PEP) and transcription factors (ARFs) from plants. We try to improve crystal quality for X-ray and neutron diffraction.