The Israeli BAG

The BAG includes numerous principal investigators which are the majority of structural biologists in Israel. The scientific topics are diverse and so different that depicting them in a short Abstract is extremely difficult. In this context BAG members are studying the parameters that govern protein assemblage, structural impacts of signaling processes in different cascades, Thermodynamics of proteolytic reaction. In addition, we have the ribosome project and the design of unique antibiotics with specific functional interactions from the mycinamycins family and their resistance related mechanism compared with other macrolides and the photosystem and how it converts light into energy. The current events promote several Covid-19 related projects but BAG members are and have been involved and virus infection and inhibitory strategies including Hepatitis C virus, arthropod borne viruses (e.g .dengue, West Nile, Zika, Israel Turkey Meningoencephalitis), chikungunya virus and more.