Multiple Designer Organelles for Expanded Eukaryotic life

Project description

Expanding eukaryotic life with novel organelles

Protein design and engineering have the potential to create new proteins and bioinspired materials for various biotechnological applications. To advance these synthetic biological processes, scientists of the EU-funded MultiOrganelleDesign project propose to develop novel organelles capable of driving transcription and translation using an expanded genetic code. The scientists have created membraneless organelles inside eukaryotic cells in which the genetic code can be expanded to open a new path to residue-specific protein engineering. Eukaryotes will then be able to code for more than the normal complement of amino acids.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › biological sciences › biochemistry › biomolecules › proteins
• natural sciences › chemical sciences › polymer sciences
• medical and health sciences › basic medicine › physiology
• natural sciences › biological sciences › genetics › RNA
• natural sciences › biological sciences › molecular biology

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Topic(s)

• ERC-2019-ADG - ERC Advanced Grant

Call for proposal

ERC-2019-ADG
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Funding Scheme

ERC-ADG - Advanced Grant

Host institution

JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITAT MAINZ

Address

Saarstrasse 21
55122 Mainz
Germany

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

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EU contribution

€ 2 499 068

Beneficiaries (1)

JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITAT MAINZ

Germany

EU contribution

€ 2 499 068

Address

Saarstrasse 21
55122 Mainz

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

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