Objective
Apoptosis is a fundamental process in the development and homeostasis of multicultural organisms. Deregulation of apoptosis, however, can result in disease pathogenesis. Examples are cancer; autoimmune disease, neurodegenerative disease and organ transplant dysfunction. The concept of apoptosis modulation allows for novel therapeutics. Our proposal exploits molecular evolution and computational techniques to design novel therapeutic protein/ peptides molecules that modulate apoptosis signalling pathways at the TNF receptor-receptor family interface. Agonists or antagonists that interact at this interface will be mutants of native proteins, such as TRAIL. Alternatively, minimised de novo binding proteins will contain receptor or receptor binding domains fused to, or incorporated onto a stable turmeric scaffold. We expect to develop a general strategy for rapid design and construction of algometric proteins/peptides therapeutics
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins
- medical and health sciences basic medicine immunology autoimmune diseases
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine oncology
- natural sciences biological sciences molecular biology molecular evolution
- medical and health sciences basic medicine physiology homeostasis
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9700 AD GRONINGEN
Netherlands
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