Heidelberg BAG (HeidelBAG)

The HeidelBAG unites macromolecular crystallography of EMBL Heidelberg and the Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center (BZH). Central to all projects are large assemblies involved in chromosome organization and transcription control, in nuclear and cytoplasmic RNA regulation and modification, in translational control by ribosome associated factors or further in protein targeting, membrane protein insertion or post-translational modification. While O. Barabas from EMBL has left the BAG, Svetlana Dodonova and Sebastian Eustermann at EMBL will join and add projects on chromatin organization. Nearly all projects make use of integrated structural biology techniques (MX, SAXS/SANS, NMR, cryo-EM, AI approaches) that are combined with complementary methods, a strategy that warranties the continuous success of the BAG. More and more the detailed architecture and mechanistic description of entire macromolecular machines come into focus. The BAG reports on 17 publications and 30 PDB entries.