The Netherlands BAG

The Netherlands BAG includes groups situated at five Dutch universities (Utrecht, Groningen, Amsterdam, Wageningen and Eindhoven) and at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, with a total of twelve PIs. The structural biology research carried out in these groups is highly diverse, including prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteins with a strong focus on targets and processes of biomedical relevance. Central to many projects are protein receptors and their interactions with other proteins and with small molecule modulators. An additional major research area concerns structure-based protein engineering and design aiming at the characterization and engineering of new enzymes for green chemistry and new-to-nature reactions. Projects deal with membrane and soluble proteins, cell surface receptors, and protein-protein, protein-ribonucleotide, protein-drug and enzyme-ligand complexes.