Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung
| Prof. Dr. Karl Poralla | Interfakultäres Institut für Mikrobiologie und Infektionsmedizin, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen |
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| Beginn der ersten Förderung | 01.06.1997 |
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Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden
| Professor Michel Rohmer as a doctoral student detected the hopanoids as an important class of bacterial lipids. The bacterial hopanoids are by his finding considered as the precursors of the hopanoids and their
derivatives in crude oil and ancient sediments. His most important
contribution was the discovery of a new biosynthetic pathway for
isoprenoids in bacteria and plant chloroplasts. The pathway is also
occurring in plasmodia and therefore his discovery has opened an avenue for the development of antimalarial drugs. In the lab of Karl Poralla in Tuebingen bacterial genes for the biosynthesis of hopanoids will be isolated and characterized. |
