Structural Biology (ER-C-3)

At the ER-C-3, we study the structural biology of essential cellular processes using electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) as our central experimental tool. This technique allows biochemically purified macromolecular structures and multi-protein complexes being investigated in their near-native environment in vitro or inside cells without the need for crystallization.

Head: Prof. Carsten Sachse

In Focus

Autophagy

Autophagy

Autophagy is the cell’s housekeeping mechanism to engulf and degrade long-lived proteins, macromolecular aggregates, damaged organelles and even microbes in double-membrane vesicles called autophagosomes.

Electron cryomicroscopy

Electron cryomicroscopy

Electron cryomicroscopy is a powerful structural biology technique

Spring

Software

Method development: Spring, Helical diffraction simulator and LocScale

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Ernst Ruska-Centre The Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons is a combined development and user facility.

For electron microscopes

ER-C User Facility

The Ernst Ruska-Centre operates a wide range of state-of-the-art transmission electron microscopes, which are made available to external researchers from academia and industry.

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JuStruct

Three outstanding institutes at Forschungszentrum Jülich are now joining forces to investigate this in more depth on an atomic level.

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