Demmer, J. K.; Chowdhury, N. P.; Selmer, T.; Ermler, U.; Buckel, W.: The semiquinone swing in the bifurcating electron transferring flavoprotein/butyryl-CoA dehydrogenase complex from Clostridium difficile. Nature Communications 8, 1577 (2017)
Demmer, J. K.; Rupprecht, F. A.; Eisinger, M. L.; Ermler, U.; Langer, J. D.: Ligand binding and conformational dynamics in a flavin-based electron-bifurcating enzyme complex revealed by Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry. FEBS Letters 590 (24), pp. 4472 - 4479 (2016)
Demmer, J. K.; Huang, H.; Wang, S.; Demmer, U.; Thauer, R. K.; Ermler, U.: Insights into Flavin-based Electron Bifurcation via the NADH-dependent Reduced Ferredoxin:NADP Oxidoreductase Structure. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 290 (36), pp. 21985 - 21885 (2015)
Chowdhury, N. P.; Mowafy, A. M.; Demmer, J. K.; Upadhyay, V.; Koelzer, S.; Jayamani, E.; Kahnt, J.; Hornung, M.; Demmer, U.; Ermler, U.et al.; Buckel, W.: Studies on the Mechanism of Electron Bifurcation Catalyzed by Electron Transferring Flavoprotein (Etf) and Butyryl-CoA Dehydrogenase (Bcd) of Acidaminococcus fermentans. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 289 (8), pp. 5145 - 5157 (2014)
Demmer, J. K.: Structure and mechanism of several flavin-based electron bifurcating enzymes. Dissertation, 132 pp., Fachbereich Biowissenschaften, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main (2017)
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics and the University of Cologne developed a new optical tool to study ferroptosis, a form of iron-driven cell death. Better understanding of how it spreads could open doors to new therapies.
On February 5, 2024, we participated in the “Frankfurt Stands Up for Democracy” demonstration, standing alongside nearly 20,000 participants representing over 100 institutions, organizations, and companies across the Frankfurt region.
The Max Planck Institute of Biophysics is part of the new science network Frankfurt Alliance together with 15 other research institutions in the Rhine-Main metropolitan area
The fellow program promotes cooperation between Max Planck Institutes and outstanding professors at universities. From March 2024, Müller-McNicoll will lead a small research group at the MPI in Frankfurt for five years to investigate RNA, the carrier of genetic information in the cell, and its regulation.