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The department of Molecular Machines and Signaling was established in July 2017. We focus on understanding how ubiquitin (UB) and UB-like protein modifications direct extraordinary changes in the fates of their targets, such as altering stability, subcellular localization, interactions, or conformation.

The vision for the department is to combine biochemical reconstitution, structure, enzymology, chemistry, protein design, cell biology and genetics – along with other cutting-edge technologies in collaboration with close colleagues (Especially in neighboring departments) – in an integrated and circular process, with continuous flow of information between methodologies.


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Brenda Schulman, director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, has been elected Foreign Member of the Royal Society in London, United Kingdom.

In a new Nature study, researchers from the MPI of Biochemistry and the Whitehead Institute in the United States have uncovered how cells selectively destroy certain microRNAs through protein…

New insights into the structure of membraneless organelles: Proteasomes form paracrystalline structures in proteasome storage granules.

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