Workgroup Seibel

About the topic "The Conversion of Bifidobacterium adolescentis Sucrose Phosphorylase into a Polyphenol Transglucosidase via Structure-based Enzyme Engineering"

Prof. Castillo is doing research in the field of Chemistry. His home University is one of the biggest in the world.

Chemists have modified the enzyme levansucrase using a new method. The enzyme can now produce sugar polymers that are exciting for applications in the food industry and medicine.

"From the basics of biofabrication to functional tissue models" – hence the title of a new Transregio Collaborative Research Centre headed by the University of Würzburg.

Scientists from Würzburg have synthesized a complex sugar molecule which specifically binds to the tumor protein Galectin-1. This could help to recognize tumors at an early stage and to combat them in a targeted manner.