… Beate Koksch Beate Koksch received her diploma in Chemistry and her PhD in biochemistry
from the University of Leipzig. She was a DFG research fellow in the laboratories of Prof. …

Multicomponent self-assembly of peptides is a powerful strategy to fabricate novel functional
materials with synergetic properties that can be used for several nanobiotechnological …

Multivalent interactions can be applied universally for a targeted strengthening of an
interaction between different interfaces or molecules. The binding partners form cooperative, …

The combination of the unique physical and chemical properties of fluorine with proteinogenic
amino acids represents a new approach to the design of biologically active compounds …

Fluorine does not belong to the pool of chemical elements that nature uses to build organic
matter. However, chemists have exploited the unique properties of fluorine and produced …

Considerable progress has been made in recent years in the design of transcription factors
for the directed regulation of endogenous genes. Although many strategies involve selection …

In previous studies, we have developed a technology for the rapid construction of novel DNA-binding
proteins with the potential to recognize any unique site in a given genome. This …

The goal of xenobiology is to design biological systems endowed with unusual biochemical
functions, whereas enzymology concerns the study of enzymes, the workhorses of …

Conspectus Deciphering the fluorine code is how we describe not only the focus of this
Account, but also the systematic approach to studying the impact of fluorine’s incorporation on …

Antimicrobial peptides are postulated to disrupt microbial phospholipid membranes. The
prevailing molecular model is based on the formation of stable or transient pores although the …