The Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Institute
At our institute we combine structural biology (mainly X-ray crystallography), biophysical approaches, and biochemistry with cell biology to allow for an integrated research approach.
Research topics focus on RNA-based gene regulation in eukaryotes (Niessing), structure-guided inhibitor design (Niessing), and various areas of biotechnology, including biomaterials for medical applications and recombinant biosurfactants for a growing bioeconomy (Rosenau). For more details, please visit the groups subpages under the RESEARCH pulldown menue.
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News
Recent Publications
Yan Wang, Dennis Kubiczek, Felix Horlamus, Heinz Fabian Raber, Till Hennecke, Daniel Einfalt, Marius Henkel, Rudolf Hausmann, Andreas Wittgens, Frank Rosenau
Bioconversion of lignocellulosic to high value food proteins: recombinant production of bovine and human αS1‐casein based on wheat straw lignocelluloses
Global Change Biology (GCB) Bioenergy. (2020) doi:10.1111/gcbb.12791
Heinz Fabian Raber, Thomas Heerde, Suzanne Nour El Din, Carolin Flaig, Fabienne Hilgers, Nora Bitzenhofer, Karl-Erich Jäger, Thomas Drepper, Kay-Eberhard Gottschalk, Nicholas Emil Bodenberger, Tanja Weil, Dennis Horst Kubiczek, Frank Rosenau
Azulitox?A Pseudomonas aeruginosa P28-Derived Cancer-Cell-Specific Protein Photosensitizer
Biomacromolecules (2020) doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.0c01216.
Kubiczek D, Flaig C, Raber H, Dietz S, Kissmann AK, Heerde T, Bodenberger N, Wittgens A, González-Garcia M, Kang F, Franco OL, Staendker L, Otero-González AJ, Walther P, Gottschalk KE, Weil T, Rosenau F.
A Cerberus-Inspired Anti-Infective Multicomponent Gatekeeper Hydrogel against Infections with the Emerging "Superbug" Yeast Candida auris.
Macromol Biosci. (2020) doi:10.1002/mabi.202000005. PubMed PMID: 32104975.
Bator I, Wittgens A, Rosenau F, Tiso T, Blank LM.
Comparison of Three Xylose Pathways in Pseudomonas putida KT2440 for the Synthesis of Valuable Products
Front Bioeng Biotechnol (2020). doi:10.3389/fbioe2019.00480
Heber S, Gáspár I, Tants J.-N, Günther J, Fernandez Moya S, Janowski R, Ephrussi A, Sattler M, Niessing D.
Staufen2-mediated RNA recognition and localization requires combinatorial action of multiple domains.
Nature Commun. (2019).
Vicente FEM, González-Garcia M, Diaz Pico E, Moreno-Castillo E, Garay HE, Rosi PE, Jimenez AM, Campos-Delgado JA, Rivera DG, Chinea G, Pietro RCLR, Stenger S, Spellerberg B, Kubiczek D, Bodenberger N, Dietz S, Rosenau F, Paixão MW, Ständker L, Otero-González AJ.
Design of a Helical-Stabilized, Cyclic, and Nontoxic Analogue of the Peptide Cm-p5 with Improved Antifungal Activity.
ACS Omega. (2019) 4(21):19081-19095. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.9b02201. eCollection 2019 Nov 19. PubMed PMID: 31763531; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6868880.
Rehage, N. et al. Binding of NUFIP2 to Roquin promotes recognition and regulation of ICOS mRNA.
Nat. Commun. (2018)
Niessing group
Rosenau group
X-ray crystallography facility
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Head:
Prof. Dr. Dierk Niessing
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Secretary
Anne Scheiffele
tel: ++ 49 / 731 / 50-23161
fax: ++ 49 / 731 / 50-23169
Room N27 2.076
(Mo, We, Thu: 8-1 PM, Tue: 1-5 PM)
Address
Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ulm University
James-Franck-Ring N27; 89081 Ulm; Germany

The DFG Research Unit FOR2333 " consists of seven German-wide teams (speaker: Ulm University).
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The DFG Priority Program SPP1935 aims at understanding RNA-bound determinants of posttranscriptional gene regulation.
