UNA4CAREER
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement Nยบ 847635.
Rademann Laboratory
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
Institute of Pharmacy / Medicinal Chemistry
We, the Rademann lab, develop methods for the identification and optimization of protein ligands by fragment ligation assays. In this concept protein-binding small molecules fragments react with each other catalyzed by the protein surface thus forming stronger binding protein ligands. Our methods detect the protein binding of small molecules with especially high sensitivity and at defined site of the protein surface. Aim of these works is the development of bioactive molecules with higher efficiency. The method enables a to understand profoundly, how molecular substructures contribute to protein binding and enhance the latter cooperatively. The new drug molecules are subsequently used for the structural and functional characterization of proteins, the visualization of molecular interactions in living cells and for the pharmacological validation of of drug targets. Our protein targets include pharmacologically relevant proteins for infectious diseases, inflammation and cancer, mainly proteases, phosphatases, protein-protein and protein-carbohydrate interactions. Projects in the group combine chemical synthesis and state-of-the-art analytics (NMR, HR-MS, LC-MS) with bioassays. We also conduct biophysical methodology (ITC, BLI, TSA, FP) with molecular biology and cellular biology techniques.
We, the Rademann lab, develop methods for the identification and optimization of protein ligands by fragment ligation assays. In this concept protein-binding small molecules fragments react with each other catalyzed by the protein surface thus forming stronger binding protein ligands. Our methods detect the protein binding of small molecules with especially high sensitivity and at defined site of the protein surface. Aim of these works is the development of bioactive molecules with higher efficiency. The method enables a to understand profoundly, how molecular substructures contribute to protein binding and enhance the latter cooperatively. The new drug molecules are subsequently used for the structural and functional characterization of proteins, the visualization of molecular interactions in living cells and for the pharmacological validation of of drug targets. Our protein targets include pharmacologically relevant proteins for infectious diseases, inflammation and cancer, mainly proteases, phosphatases, protein-protein and protein-carbohydrate interactions.
